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It is literally the specification to send live tv over IP. The fact some services also support on demand movies is irrelevant to the fact the service in question is for live tv.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol_television

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You send an MPEG transport stream. The contents are arbitrary and can be anything you want, live TV, movies, etc.

Which doesn’t change the fact the protocol was literally designed for TV and the service in question was selling television stream access.

I never said it doesn't support live tv. But I was trying to point out that people who pay for the above service are not _necessarily_ interested in the live tv feature. I.e. it's not the reason for some. I'd guess convenience.

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