Thread: The future of pay-television
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Old 18-08-2011, 19:41   #5
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Re: The future of pay-television
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Originally Posted by spankysmagicpian View Post
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?
How many of those requests are as a result of people missing programmes on linear TV and thinking "Oh well, I'll catch it on On Demand later"?

The thing that concerns me is that if the Linear TV channels go, who is going to pay for those wonderful series the Economist mentions? All have been made for Linear channels. I've seen no evidence of the likes of Netflix working on new series. IIRC , Google made noise about developing their own TV productions, but I don't believe anything has come of it.
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