Thread: VOD Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Old 19-08-2019, 13:27   #1011
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Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
The BBC planning for something and actually doing something is two separate things. You continue to clutch at that one ignoring ITV, Channel 4, Sky (those that rely on viewers/subscribers and not the tv tax) have announced no such plans.

Also the whole country won’t have adequate broadband in “a few years” - even the ISPs themselves have wrote to the PM outlining the massive task it’d be to achieve this by 2025, let alone 2033.

All the while linear television, terrestrial and satellite, continues to beam glorious high definition pictures universally and people continue to watch despite having the option of on demand options.
So how do you explain the fact that commercial TV stations are being consulted on increasing their advertising time to make up for their depleted advertising income that has arisen from the increased viewing of OTT services?

This increase in commercials will only lead viewers to abandon commercial TV stations in greater numbers, and so the spiral of increasing decay gets tighter.
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