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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
That's right, heero_guy. I think most have now conceded that streaming services will become the most popular means of accessing TV content, but there are still those who cannot bring themselves to believe that ultimately, the existing broadcast channels will wither on the vine as it will no longer make financial sense to provide them.
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Whilst this may be the case for most of the dross on TV, sport will remain the Jewell in the crown of standard tv channels as viewers will not stand for the continuous buffering problems streaming has at present.
Of course when the majority of people have broadband speeds in excess of those currently available streaming UHD sport should not be a problem - until then
Streaming of sport will not take off in any large numbers and sky/BT will continue to harvest the majority of important sports rights.
Eleven Sports are streaming the 1st 2 rounds of the USPGA tournament free - but if you want to watch the important weekend rounds then you have to subscribe - to a fledgling service with mainly foreign to rights.