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Originally Posted by bamav
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. |
A few years ago this was my thinking as well, ie linear tv will end and it will all be VOD. Now that Netflix is here and is doing what VM's VOD service never did, ie giving a decent selection of stuff instantly available for a good price, I can see how most people think linear will die off.
Except, after "feasting" on numerous tv boxsets and films on Netflix in recent times, in my household we have gone back to old fashioned telly viewing habits. Where we don't have to choose what we watch all the time, its done for us. And we have to wait a week for the next episode of whatever show we are currently watching, which makes it more interesting than watching several episodes of the same show all in one sitting.
So, in my house at least, linear isn't quite dead yet.
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As for SD and STBs going by 2020, me thinks not. Perhaps on Sky, it could happen as they were the ones that axed analogue first.
I may be wrong on this, but for cloud based tv services, I think you still need some form of stb, ie for encryption?? And as for SD, there will still be many people that will not have HD tvs by 2020, especially those on Freeview. So I don't see the demise of SD yet. What VM and others may do is launch new channels only in HD and start to remove SD+1 channels in favour of HD+1 channels instead. And using six times more bandwith in the process.