Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Linear TV within a streamer is really best for live programmes, like news and sport (with the caveat that the latency problem needs to be resolved). The BBC I-Player provides that option already.

I am sure there will be lots of experimentation with linear TV on the streamers for films, entertainment, dramas, etc, which is what Pluto does now. However, when watching by VOD really catches on, as people use streamers more and more, I would imagine that most people will turn mainly to the VOD. I mean, how many people watch linear TV on Now TV? I’m sure that some do, but it’s so much more convenient to simply pick out the very same programmes that you can watch on the live channels from VOD. Watch them when you want, uninterrupted by those pesky ads.

Human nature is always difficult to predict, and maybe there will always be those people who prefer to watch ‘channels’ as such. However if, as I suspect, only a small minority do that in the future, the streamers will come to regard this as not being worth their while.

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If you are talking about the BBC, simply abolish the licence fee.