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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Your reality is different from actual reality, jfman. All the media press is wrong and you are right. That is a given in your perverse world.
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What media press? I only see blogs.
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A decent debate on these issues would be good on a forum of this nature rather than pathetic attempts at ridicule because you are losing the argument. I accept you are not the only one, since there are a number of posters who love channel numbers and don't want change, but you have been particularly argumentative - not only on this subject, but on a whole range of subjects.
Let's have a sensible debate instead of these interminable put-downs and sour remarks.
Even you have had to admit that the number of viewing hours on the streaming services is starting to outstrip viewing on traditional channels.
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You are now being ridiculous Old Boy. You are asking me to admit to a point that I've literally never contested. What I've contested and asked you to demonstrate, but been unable to, is where linear live broadcasting - over any method (DTT, satellite, cable or IPTV) reaches zero. Not small/tiny/limited. Actually zero.
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The main difference in the argument now is where this is all going to end, and in particular, the survivability of the broadcast linear channels.
I do not subscribe to your view that these channels will keep going regardless of the number of viewers. Why would they bother? Once the need for any service drops to below a certain level, it ceases to be provided. It happened with VHS tapes, with Amazon Fire Phones, with Izal toilet paper....Or bending the facts, more like!
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All of those examples have high costs despite limited use with the fixed costs being absorbed over a smaller customer base as demand diminishes. The continued manufacture of products of limited or near-zero demand have - what we call in economics - opportunity costs. What else could that factory make? What else could the distribution chains be used for?
The same principles don't apply, regardless of how much you wish them to, to linear, broadcast television. The costs of broadcast (for major content owners and distributors) are near zero in terms of overall revenue, reach is millions of homes.