Re: Virgin Media set to launch new box.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
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Yes, but that’s a conscious decision made, egged on by the content makers who want to limit our ability to time-shift viewing to maximise their profits. It’s nothing to do with the technology. I think it’s only a matter of time before we find that everything we have recorded on our Sky or Virgin boxes is deleted after 90 days.
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On what basis? The technology to do so has existed since Sky+ launched in 2002 yet nobody at any point has considered such a content limitation - indeed it is widely recognised that viewers would reject it therefore Sky and Virgin have no intention of doing so.
Indeed - if we're at the threshold where millions of people are going to cancel anyway because generic Marvel Movie 14 is exclusive to Disney+ and Discovery are repeating old documentaries on their old platform why would they bother after all this time?
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I would far rather we could take out a subscription and watch any programme we liked from the cloud. We could be permitted a reasonable amount of content per month, which would be dependent on how new the content was.
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Pay as you go television removes the economies of scales that make platforms viable.
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I don’t appreciate being pressured to watch programmes from a series within a strict time-frame. We are not all binge watchers and some of us have lives beyond the TV screen.
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Indeed, some people like the glacial pace of one episode a week. |
