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Old 18-08-2011, 19:31   #4
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Re: The future of pay-television

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Originally Posted by spankysmagicpian View Post
Only because there is no currently viable alternative Den. IMO, pay TV will start to decline in a few years. It wont vanish completely as people will still subscribe for the sports but everything else? Nah!

We haven't any Netflix or Amazon streaming ... no Blockbuster etc. Wait until YouView appears, Wait until Netflix arrives next year. Why pay Sky for the movie channels when you could pay Netflix say £10 a month for unlimited rentals?

Apart from the five terrestrial channels why subscribe to all those channels you don't watch when they might start to offer sometime soon micropayments for VOD. Great! You've got Discovery but you might only watch a few shows a week on it.

Pay-TV is linear TV and linear TV will be dead in the water in the not too distant future. Proof? Looks like VM will have had what... 1 billion VOD requests by year end?


l am sorry but Linear TV is still going strong and will still be going strong in 10 years.

http://www.indiantelevision.com/mam/...g/augmam58.php

http://www.worldtvpc.com/blog/linear...-run-research/

http://www.cable.co.uk/news/thinkbox...-tv-800704130/
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