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If you can’t see the obvious contradiction between streaming being “the future” and some of the biggest names in broadcasting maintaining a linear presence on their own yet-to-launch app then I can’t help you.
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Never mind, the future will take care of itself. |
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Time to let streaming stand in its own two feet and let the viewer decide with their wallet. |
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I'm behind this 100%. |
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The politicians will never cull the state propaganda machine.
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Good to know that the predictions from some quarters on here about the broadband rollout not being implemented by 2025 have proved to be somewhat removed from the reality we are now experiencing. ---------- Post added at 20:32 ---------- Previous post was at 20:28 ---------- Quote:
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You do raise an interesting point though, I’d hypothesise in her later years using apps at all would have been almost impossible, linear channels or otherwise. No internet in her household (it was the 90s, after all), in fact only got a landline in the final few years for emergencies. She got on just fine with 1-4 and Sky, until Channel 5 launched on UHF 37 and messed up the VCR. My guess would be as people live longer with deteriorating health issues (such as dementia) a simple interface will be essential for any hypothetical “streaming” future. So primitive it will be linear over IP, with on demand and app menus. Like a Sky or Virgin interface now. If it ain’t broke and all that. |
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As I said on this site somewhere a few years ago, I was suspicious that all this new fangled streaming was simply bookmarks on servers to ondemand shows and that's exactly what Sky Stream is. I hate it. Once we lose our conventional linear tv system, we'll never get it back and all the power won from the days of the wars over recording onto VHS will be lost to the American tech giants aka New Hollywood. And my tv doesn't work when the internet fails, nor does my phone. But hey, that's progress...:( |
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Interesting! Particularly the stat about 31% of 65+ age range not using the Internet at home. To me, the main benefit of an Internet TV service is dispensing with the need for another cable so that TVs just need to be located near a power socket.
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And talking of getting rid of cables, I came across a gadget I had never heard of before, a wireless HDMI transmitter. That solves the issue of using one STB on multiple tvs, as but one use of it. |
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Who gets the extra 1%? |
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