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Originally Posted by zantarous
Linear TV aint going anywhere and that is a FACT.
You can rant all you want about your Netflixs and you Lovefilms but they have huges problems to overcome. So far they are stuggling to get the rights to movies and cost of delivery is only going to go up. It is estimated that it cost Netflix more in postage to send DVDs by mail then it does to stream. And so far they are getting a free ride in streaming wait till there is a back lash and ISPs demand far bigger sums of money to deliver enormous amounts of data.
Oh and here is one metric that people need to remember, for linear broadcast it cost the broadcaster the same whether one person watches or 50 million watch. With streamed media the more people that watch the more expensive and problematic it becomes.
With very few exceptions all shows are made for TV and Pay TV in the States is turning out quality drama after quality drama at the moment.
And finally 1080i broadcast of on HDTV with 5.1 sound will always look and sound better then the highly compressed crap the Lovefilm offers.
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Excellent points , we watched films via streaming services on our connected TV and as you say the quality just doesn't come close to a 1080i linear broadcast.