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Originally Posted by Raider999
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.
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That is the bottom line and for the majority FTTP is not that many years away. Once it comes the likes of Sky & BT will be the ones to be able to supply them via streaming, VM once DOCSIS 3 is finally rolled out. Where is that going to leave linear channels?
Linear broadcast income will decrease resulting in a lack of finance. Hardly rocket science.
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