Thread: VOD Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Old 08-09-2020, 16:43   #1440
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Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
Oh this is hilarious.

OB, all you have ever offered here is your opinions, with the opinions of others as your ‘evidence’.
I have provided plenty of links to support my views on this over the last five years or so and I would remind you that I was once ridiculed for suggesting that streaming services were the future. Now the streaming services are starting to dominate viewer choices, the main issue is whether the TV channels will close down. Perceptions change over time.

I have said why I believe what I do, and whilst others can prefer other outcomes, they express these in a way that indicate very strongly that I am wrong, with no evidence to support these views themselves, and not wanting any debate about it.

Nobody knows who will be proved right as we are talking about what things will look like 15 years from now. I am just stating my belief in what will happen, and I stand by that.

I am not the only one offering opinions on here, but it is obvious that some contributors don't want any change - they want no dissention on that, and cannot contemplate life without inflexible schedules, EPGs and channel numbers.

Well, good luck if you hold that view, that's what I say!

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
While I certainly don’t see the point in this thread discussing the merits or otherwise of the licence fee - it’s a tedious subject exhausted plenty of times for over 20 years now - I do think it’s abolition is key to Old Boy’s dreams being realised by critically undermining the UK television industry.

If there’s a way to ensure any North American tat dominates the airwaves (or the fibre) it’s the terminal decline of the UK television industry.

While there’s a licence fee there’s going to be plenty of low cost, affordable, British repeat content (from BBC and ITV) for linear channels to feast upon for decades to come.
It's so not! The only connection is that as people pay for more streaming services, they will question more why they are paying for services they don't use.
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