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No he is right tbf there used to be a channel called cat tv it was quite popular but shut down due to lack of funding, there is also dog tv too - https://www.dogtv.com/hello/

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Ideally it should be possible to a hybrid channel i.e. a scheduled channel using On Demand content, rather than having a live channel that adds On Demand content afterwards

Although I guess that's what BBC and ITV and others are doing when you can 'watch ahead' with boxsets.

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In the case of Star Trek Discovery they didn't allow any on demand. Very frustrating. Hence other routes to view were used!

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Dog TV seems to have very limited availability, probably more of a specialised service than a FAST channel, which would explain why it costs $6.99 a month. An altogether different type of channel.


From what I've heard, ITV will be launching additional FAST channels within ITVX. https://www.itv.com/presscentre/pres...ing-later-year

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So is that content that you'll be already getting via On Demand in ITV X or is it only content that will be on the FAST channel?

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Possibly, I guess we'll have to wait and see. I don't know any more than it says in the press release.

It does seem to indicate that broadcasters are starting to get the message that searching for content isn't for everyone. Maybe curated linear channels will be the big thing in 2035. :D

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100% OD is only for OB. ;)

Aren't all linear channels curated (programmed)?

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Well, that’s certainly been your interpretation of what I’ve been ‘harping on about for seven years’, but that’s because you have this hang up with the word ‘linear’ and you’ve taken the argument too far. I keep trying to explain to you what I am referring to, but you have not been listening.

I have tried to use different language to help you to figure it out like ‘conventional broadcast channels’, etc, but I seem to be spitting in the wind.

For the very last time, I am referring to existing terrestrials and other free and pay tv channels available through the EPG, and I am saying that when they go IPTV, as they will, they will lose their channel distinctions and we will be offered content from that organisation (like, BBC, ITV, Sky, etc) by content rather than by channel.

It’s all I am saying. By my reckoning, it will happen by 2035.

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Ok never found that a problem, however thinking about it have found some shows that l wanted to watch which were only on Netflix , except for one would never have bothered if l hadn't had it. As I would have never known about them :rolleyes:

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It’s not an interpretation, OB, it’s observable reality. You are persistently and intentionally evasive when it comes down to using very specific definitions of very specific terms.

I’m at a loss as to where Pluto TV fits into this and how it’s distinguishable - if it even is at all - from linear (using the generally accepted definition) broadcasts over IP and why it will be viable for Pluto but not some of the biggest businesses in the market.

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https://www.rapidtvnews.com/20180813...ss-europe.html

You need to keep up, Andrew!

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Scheduled rather than curated for the main broadcasters. I was thinking of broadcasters following ITV's (and Channel 5's) lead and introducing additional, themed, linear channels. It does seem to be the way things are going.

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I'm not so sure that linking to an article from 2018 is the best way of telling someone to keep up. Maybe try linking to some stats from 2022.

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Notably absent: any stats at all on people who exclusively watch on demand programming.

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Done deliberately. The number of VOD viewers is increasing all the time, as more recent articles have been confirming. This was not even disputed 4 years ago, that’s why I advised him to keep up.

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Er - it’s 2022, jfman. Nearly there, be patient. You do have this habit of confusing the present with the future…

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I think he is keeping up, he posted the link about Netflix job cuts after a subscriber exodus. That is the reality of 2022. Netflix is facing exactly the problems you have stated to be the downfall of traditional channels. Other broadcasters are pulling content from Netflix to support their own streaming services. Now Netflix has to rely even more on making its own content. The heady days of 2018 are gone and the original streamers face competition. Consumers are faced with having to pay subs to not one but many streamers to access the same content and at a time when the cost of living is increasing globally. Maybe now we could start to see the number of VOD viewers starting to fall faced with this new reality. Could VOD viewing have actually peaked? Obviously, you will say not, but it's probably better to watch what actually happens rather than listen to what you wish to happen.