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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
At long last, Chris, you have concluded that the broadcast linear channels would be in difficulty if sufficient numbers embraced streaming at the expense of our traditional channels.
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Errr ... No I haven't. The point I was making was actually so far removed from that, it's hard to know what to say to you by way of a response.
Still, at least it proves that you're basically not engaging with the issues at all - you're simply reading everything as being supportive of something you see a bright future for anyway, ultimately for no other reason than you really like it and can't understand why more people don't do it.
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So the only question now is, whether the trend towards streaming will, in fact, increase substantially over the years. I think it will, because streaming is so much more efficient and you can cram more programmes that you want to watch in your available viewing time.
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Further proving my point - you are welded to the idea that everyone basically wants to consume entertainment the way you do. Until you begin to accept that other people consume entertainment in different ways, you're never going to truly grapple with the issues here.
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I don't see how the broadband and power demands you mention would be a problem. Just compare Virgin's available broadband speeds now compared to just three years ago. Things change, and they are changing at a faster and faster pace.
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Again, proving the point that you can't, or won't, engage with anything that challenges your pre-conceived views. In fact, the point about lack of data capacity, and lack of electricity generating capacity to run it, was made months ago, with supporting links, in this very thread. Whether you can see the problem or not, is irrelevant. It exists.
Virgin Media and others are very good at advertising blisteringly fast headline speeds, but they are selling you a contended service. You share the same chunk of bandwidth with at least half your street. If the entire UK TV audience tried to consume something in HD at the same time, using the Internet as opposed to a terrestrial aerial or a satellite dish, you would very quickly learn a frustrating lesson in just how much of that 200Mbps is actually "yours".
The UK's broadband and power generating capacity is far, far short of where it would need to be in order to support the IP based system you are advocating. The information is out there, and it's in here. Try actually reading the thread. The other day you said you had yet to see any arguments here that contradicted you. I suggest this is because you're not bothering to read them (or, possibly, simply not understanding them, or else dismissing them out of hand because they tell you something you don't want to hear).
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It is a mistake to look at how things work now and to assume that current restrictions preventing progress will always be there in the future.
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It is a bigger mistake to insist no such restrictions exist.
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Interesting. The report clearly shows that the number of people watching live broadcast TV has begun it's long decline. ITV's portfolio of channels has suffered a worrying decline in audience share.
The writing is on the wall. I believe that this decline will accelerate as time goes on. No reason to think it won't.
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That's because you're making an elementary mistake in your reading of the statistics. Past trends are no guarantee of the future. Other factors play their part, as I have outlined above. If you continue to refuse to acknowledge the fuller picture, you will continue to make faulty assumptions about the development of streaming entertainment services. Incidentally, I guarantee you that these are mistakes that are not being made in the boardrooms of companies like Netflix.