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Originally Posted by MutleyF
Interesting, but equally I cannot see this happening.
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It's happening now, just look at the latest TVs they already offer the basic Linear TV channels, on demand and access to box sets. In the case of Sony, Samsung and LG they all are looking to provide original content too!
If we go back to the days of Tiscali (part of Talktalk now) they had a set top box that did all linear channels down the internet and it worked reasonably well. That was five plus years ago!
In my home we watch very little live TV (excluding sports), it's either on demand or recorded. If we had access to a decent library of box sets we probably would record that much TV either?
Even Tivo are looking at providing apps for internet devices (including PC's), so they can see the writing on the wall for the Tivo box! They have just re-written there software using a new library which makes it portable to other platforms! At present the apps stream from your Tivo box but they also stream from other sources!
The business model of VM TV is currently flawed and will need to change or go extinct!