Thread: VOD The future for linear TV channels
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Old 01-04-2016, 18:59   #787
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Re: The future for linear TV channels
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
OB, I have answered it repeatedly, but just on the off chance you have missed it, I'll repeat it:

Even if it were possible to deliver high definition video on demand to every home in the UK simultaneously, there would still be no need to do so.

VOD is a subscription based service and the UK market has demonstrated that the appetite for subscription TV is limited. Even in the USA there are signs that Netflix subscriber growth is slowing.

VOD is also, by its nature, unable to carry live TV. As soon as it does that it stops being VOD and starts being a linear service, regardless of whether it's delivered by terrestrial or satellite broadcast, or over IP.

You may not have noticed, but some of the most popular things on TV are broadcast live. (Strictly and the X factor for example, but also news and live sports on Sky or BT).

It will be necessary to retain a broadcast schedule indefinitely because live events happen according to a a schedule, and as long as that's the case, the networks that operate the scheduled broadcasts will fill in between their live output with recorded content. For this reason, even if the consumer demand for VOD subscription became half as strong as you assert it will be (and it won't), practical reasons will ensure that linear broadcast TV continues.

Now, there is nothing in the above that I have not posted before, more than once. Feel free to ignore it if you like (as you obviously have done before), but next time you set out another batch of boneheaded questions, please don't try to patronise me with childish mind games about other members' opinions.
Chris, no-one is trying to patronise anyone; certainly not me. I just don't understand why there are some on this forum cannot contemplate change. I have given good reasons why I think that the days of linear TV are numbered. So my questions are not bone headed just because they make different presumptions than yours.

Where have I ignored your views, or those of anyone else, for that matter? I don't want to keep repeating myself, which is why I don't always answer every single point of every post.

I am, however, quite surprised that you think that you cannot stream live TV. You can, and the streaming service can announce when the stream becomes available. When we still had video tapes, it was hard to envisage how we could start watching a recording while it was still recording, but nowadays we do that all the time with our recordings on the Tivo box.

Now, what is this killer point you have made that I have ignored?
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