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Originally Posted by Horizon
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.
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Running analogue and digital in parallel doubled Sky's carriage costs, so they had a big incentive to drop analogue quickly (compare with cable where the bandwidth was already paid for so effectively free). They will have to use STBs as long as they stick with satellite delivery because of the intricacies of decoding satellite signals. Will they rebrand as 'Land' eventually?
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Originally Posted by Horizon
I may be wrong on this, but for cloud based tv services, I think you still need some form of stb, ie for encryption??
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That will be built into TVs. Smart TVs already have enough DRM capability for the likes of Netflix.