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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
In ten years? You may be right. In 20? Do you remember what it was like watching TV 20 years ago? In 1995, analogue cable TV was just being rolled out and most people did not have the Internet.
Given all the changes that can happen in a short space of time, particularly now, with technological advances being made at an ever faster rate, I don't think it wise to be saying that the existing linear TV model will still exist, at least in its present form, in the longer term.
And as for the BBC, I did not say that it would not exist in ten years. There's not a reason that I can think of why the BBC should not present all of its programmes by way of streaming in the future.
Incidentally, the BBC may be the last to depart from linear TV broadcasting, given that their channels do not waste 15 minutes of every hour showing commercials!
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Several months in to this discussion and you're still confusing 'linear' and 'streaming'.
They are not the same. 'Linear' means a fix schedule; 'streaming' is a method of delivering data - that data might be a linear TV schedule or it might be an individual selection from a library. The BBC presents all of its content by way of streaming *right now* - its linear schedule is streamed via the iplayer.
As for the rest of your post, well, several of us have been trying to explain to you for months now, where your assumptions are faulty - you continue to be unwilling or unable to separate your personal preferences from economic reality, so there's little point rehearsing it all again.
There will still be a broadcast TV service 20 years from now. I'd put money on it.