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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Interesting. Would a cloud based system mean us accessing our own recordings that were recorded on a server?
If not, I guess it would in effect be VOD, but every programme would have to be recorded and kept available for a reasonable amount of time.
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All programmes are kept - it's just a matter of where and how we would access them. This is in effect the prediction of the demise of linear TV. Live events will simply be available at the time they happen, and accessible from that point onwards.
Even "live" news would simply be updated at intervals through he day, you would just go to the News and view it when you can.
I can't see any practical reason for linear TV to continue. It's a very noisy way to run programming - ie just pushing stuff out when it might not even be looked at.
There will no need to record, as every programme will exist somewhere.
For the record, cloud is just a nice way of saying someone else's computer!
How all this is managed, charged, how good is quality, etc, will depend on improvements to come.
As for connection - you're reliant on your cable connection, aerial, satellite, etc. Ok, more could possibly go wrong, but internet reliability is getting better.