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Originally Posted by TVWatcher
Not when you factor in the costs of hiring datacenter / CDN capability which is an ongoing cost which increases the more data you ship - i.e. the more viewers you get the more your overheads increase.
The cost of streaming The Night Manager or even Corrie in HD to the same audiences they get on TV would be huge.
In contrast, while terrestrial capacity is expensive it and DSAT capacity cost the same whether 1 person is watching or 20 million.
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Aaah that makes sense. So for small channels like Vintage TV on Freeview IPTV it will be more cost effective to be on IPTV but once you cross a threshold of viewers it's cheaper to have a full-blown terrestrial channel.
(Presumably the same applies to the foreign channels on VM's Worldbox - if they become popular then it's worth their while getting a proper cable channel.)