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Originally Posted by Chris
What I'm failing to do is to give any credence to your fantasies.
The contents of this thread alone is enough to show you really don't know what you're talking about - all you have done since it started is 'predict' that the future of TV would look pretty much the way you wish it would, based on the way you personally prefer to consume content.
Let's not forget that you started out making bold predictions about linear TV ending in 10 years or a little more, even though the evidence right before you was that the BBC was about to engage in a charter renewal process that would guarantee its functions for a decade, with no prospect of an abrupt end thereafter.
You may have noticed, regardless of the personal beliefs of any member of the government, the charter renewal process isn't examining a move to subscription. It's not even flagging up advance warning that the BBC should start researching it.
You have to learn to separate the noise and chaff of what individual politicians say (even the senior ones), and what is politically possible to achieve. Until you can do that, you are going to carry on making gaffes like this one, from a little over a year ago:
... which was a thoroughly daft claim you could have avoided making, simply by weighing the real-world evidence over your desire to see TV delivered in the way you prefer it.
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I have merely speculated that with reducing advertising revenues as the nation moves to streaming instead of being hide bound by inflexible schedules and saturated by time wasting commercials, live broadcast TV will struggle to survive and that in 20 years' time, watching TV will be a completely different experience.
On the contrary to what you have said, and as I have clarified on more than one occasion, my prediction is not 'what I want' but how I think things may change to cope with the economics of it all.
You made it clear from the off that the status quo was what you were most comfortable with and it seems to me that you have turned your back on the suggestion of any change at all in your comfort zone. That's OK, but don't say you were never warned when the time comes. In the meantime, let's try to ignore what's happening all around us, like little inconvenient truths such as BBC going online only to save costs. The same sort of thing will almost certainly happen in respect of commercial TV when the bottom line so dictates.
In relation to the BBC subscription issue, despite the pronouncements of the Secretary of State, you are simply not engaging with what he has already said. There will be no subscription based BBC for the next decade, but when the next renewal time comes, this will be a serious consideration (if the Tories are still in power at that time).
By the way, given the scale of the cuts to the BBC, I am surprised that you think a major change to this much loved institution is 'politically impossible to achieve'. Oh, really?
