So, you are now posting what many others have been saying all along. that linear tv will continue and the OD services will still be OTT. It's taken a long time for you to get here, but I'm glad you are now here. No-one has denied changes will happen, just simply not to extent you suggested.
Nothing is going to change drastically in the next 3 to 5 years either. Other than Sky etc offering more apps on their STB, which they are doing anyway.
The cost side of things was simply down to theoretically thinking that if, for example, Fox took themselves out of linear TV, and charged £5.99 for their content, I am having to pay an extra £5.99 just to watch The Walking Dead. I imagine they would remove any of their content from Netflix, Amazon et al as well, thus forcing my hand further to pay more if I wanted to watch the same content I used to get in my previous package. Imagine if all content makers did the same and charged the same as HBO GO in the States for example. Will cost a fortune.
Yeah, many of the best shows are on terrestrial, being watched on linear tv with out any major outcry from the TV watching nation demanding change. People do not wait for them to migrate to Netflix before watching them.
Yup pay tv is a bit of a rip off, but that is the way it works. If you want the content from the channels (regardless of how much you actually watch) you pay through the nose for it.
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Correct!!!!!! So they will simply revert to linear TV so they can record shows and fast forward through the adverts.
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