Thread: VOD The future for linear TV channels
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Old 01-04-2016, 16:30   #781
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Re: The future for linear TV channels
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
OB, your questions were based on a false premise and are therefore not relevant.

VOD subscriptions will not increase until they are universal. No subscription based service has ever achieved that.

The British power grid will never generate sufficient energy to supply continuous HD streaming to every home in the UK at the same time, because that energy requirement is simply too high. Have you not noticed the kerfuffle we're having over one new nuclear power station which won't generate any power for at least 10 years?

And, I say again, the BBC will not, ever, operate on a subscription model. Public Service Broadcasting in the UK (with the present exception of the BBC) is free-to-air, supported by advertising.
You are jumping way ahead of the facts, Chris. I have already acknowledged that VOD subscriptions will increase, so what's your point?

Your point about the British power grid - there are two issues. Firstly, each Government of the day in recent years has failed to keep up with demand, and that's nothing to do with VOD - this would have happened anyway due to the failure to update our energy generation systems.

Secondly, the energy requirement you speak of has already been reduced by 50%, so we are well on the way to addressing this problem.

I notice that you have still not answered my questions to you. I will let our fellow forum viewers draw their own conclusions.

As for your suggestion ( or assertion) that the BBC will never go to subscription only, what do you say about current Government thinking? Just because you disagree doesn't make your opinion right. Where are the facts to support your views?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/...-audience.html
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