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Old 02-10-2020, 23:19   #8143
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
My analogy is no more off the wall than your implication that there's a lot of £50 millions out there to be saved from going streaming only.

If there was you'd perhaps have a point. However it's simply not true.

The fact the BBC are going in reverse suggests you may be getting further away from, not closer to, your 2035 vision.

You're forgetting (as you always do) is that the BBC get ratings for simply being top of the EPG. A prized position they simply will not give up. The same content on BBC 1 rates higher than BBC 2. Same goes for ITV for major news coverage (when ITV did such a thing) and simulcasts of the World Cup final or major England games.
Your lack of vision is nothing short of astounding. Nothing will ever change according to your assessment. History proves you wrong. All things must pass.

As I said, the Beeb closed BBC3 prematurely, and I did say that at the time. That has been proved true.

Yes, being top of the EPG is worth a great deal.But that is now. If most of the other channels have already closed down and most people have abandoned the system we have now, what then?

Your mistake is in believing there will not be a big shift in viewing patterns over the next decade or so. If that doesn’t happen, I will be the first to say I was wrong.

But can you put your hand on your heart and say you really don’t believe that a viewer shift of this kind will never happen under any circumstances? What makes you so sure?
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