Thread: VOD Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Old 21-05-2020, 20:32   #1323
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Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Thanks Old Boy for digging up my old post, which I think you will find entirely consistent with my most recent one here.

My bold.

You keep wilfully leaving out this caveat.

You will find that my position is entirely consistent with the BBCs here.
My post 1318 includes your caveat. So what's your point? As far as I am aware, BBC3 Online and BBC4 content belongs to the BBC.

So, according to your own assessment, the Beeb should be able to reinstate BBC3 without very much cost at all.

The fact that the Beeb is having to balance whether to replace BBC4 with BBC 3 seems to prove you wrong. If it was so inexpensive to run a channel (ahem, with their own content) why the agonising?

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You can pick any channel run on a shoestring budget on the Sky EPG to confirm that the actual cost of broadcasting is tiny compared to the actual cost of content.

You are the only person that sees this as a zero sum game. These companies (and more importantly their shareholders) do not.
Really? So why the agonising over how to fund it, then?

Nothing like reality to demolish a poorly thought out argument.

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You are the only person that sees this as a zero sum game. These companies (and more importantly their shareholders) do not.
The only one? Another untruth.
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