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Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36070627)

You sure?

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...r#post36060578

OB shifts the goal posts more times than VAR.

Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36070627)

You sure?

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...r#post36060578

What is your point? I was criticised for referring to those TV channels as linear back in the day!

You are just playing with words. You know perfectly well what I am saying.

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Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k (Post 36070642)

OB shifts the goal posts more times than VAR.

I think you are hallucinating, Legendkiller. My goalposts are still in place. Nothing has moved.

Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future

Everyone else separately and independently is playing with words Old Boy, and pretending to misunderstand you, just for our own entertainment.

Occam's razor, Old Boy. Those goalposts are indeed the most mobile since I played Subbuteo.

Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future

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Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k (Post 36070642)

OB shifts the goal posts more times than VAR.

:D:D:D

Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future

From mid last year.

https://www.protocol.com/plex-live-tv-linear-streaming

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With 24/7 programming, the future of TV looks a lot like its past

Plex is the latest video service to add linear online TV channels, a trend that could accelerate cord cutting.

Plex is bringing back the cable grid. The popular media center app added 80 live TV channels Thursday, complete with a programming guide that will look very familiar to anyone who has ever subscribed to pay TV, albeit with a few key differences: Plex's new live TV service is free to use, and it doesn't feature popular cable channels like CNN, TBS or Lifetime.

Instead, its lineup includes channels like Reuters, Toon Goggles and the Bob Ross Channel. This type of ad-supported linear programming is growing in popularity across the industry; with consumers forced to tighten their belts, it could further contribute to cord cutting and fasten the shift from cable bundles to online video — a future that may, at least to consumers, look very much like the best of TV's past.

Plex has long positioned itself as an app for cord cutters, with free on-demand video and DVR functionality for broadcast TV networks. With its 80 new live TV channels, the company wants to offer its customers an experience that's closer to the lean-back viewing known from traditional pay TV. The Los Gatos-based startup has plans to add another 50 to 100 channels in the coming months.

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The trend toward 24/7 linear streaming is in part driven by a handful of startups, including Frequency, Wurl and Amagi, that have developed technology to program video assets in a TV-like fashion. While linear streaming channels used to be little more than playlists, they now feature channel IDs, and ad breaks aren't interrupting actors midsentence anymore. The next step will be to marry those linear channels with on-demand assets, allowing viewers who stumble across a certain show to explore the rest of a season. "Linear as a discovery tool to other content is really important," Opeka said.

Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36070656)

Tbf i probably am as my team Wolves won so not sure if it's real or not.

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I think there's a debate to be had about the future of the EPG or how we access content. But I'm not sure we're they're yet in this slippery thread.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36070697)

I think there's a debate to be had about the future of the EPG or how we access content. But I'm not sure we're they're yet in this slippery thread.

Really I'm not so sure , all the streaming services in the USA what carry live TV still use some form EPG.

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 36070722)

Really I'm not so sure , all the streaming services in the USA what carry live TV still use some form EPG.

Indeed it does this is a screenshot from my hulu showing the EPG.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36070697)

I think there's a debate to be had about the future of the EPG or how we access content. But I'm not sure we're they're yet in this slippery thread.

There was a (small) bit about that in the linked article above.

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A better integration of live and on-demand could ultimately also lead to better interfaces than the traditional grid guide, Birgfeld said. "The guide has always been a necessary evil," he said, adding that many companies simply stuck to it for legacy reasons. "It's not because it's the best solution."

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Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k (Post 36070750)

Indeed it does this is a screenshot from my hulu showing the EPG.

Looks more like the late 1990s than the 2030s to me ;)

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36070752)

Looks more like the late 1990s than the 2030s to me ;)

Yeah lol they do need to update it it is better on the Sheild though quick slick.

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36070659)

Thank you for confirming that all these posts over many years now are just the nonsense that I have thought they were.

How childish. However, boys will play...

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36072300)

Thank you for confirming that all these posts over many years now are just the nonsense that I have thought they were.

How childish. However, boys will play...

I read jfman's comments as being sarcastic and indicating two possible versions of events:
1) Everyone else is playing with words and pretending to misunderstand you.
2) You have given everyone the impression that you move the goalposts when you are in danger of losing the discussion, by time frame or by definition of what is being discussed.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36072309)

No, I haven't shifted goalposts. The usual suspects are simply trying to create that impression. I'm not going over this again.