Thread: VOD Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Old 01-12-2020, 13:08   #1597
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Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Until you actually answer the question asked. Can you tell me how a “Pluto-TV” type service varies from scheduled, linear television other than the delivery method?

Stop wasting time. Stop obfuscating. Stop shifting the goalposts.

It’s obvious from your posts you know the game is up. Linear television will exist in 2035 to the surprise of absolutely no-one. Whether it’s broadcast over DTT or not is simply a new discussion as you backtrack further.

Again to save us all the hassle it’d be helpful if you could clarify at this point whether your 20x5 commitment is for the end of DTT or the end of scheduled linear broadcasting. In one word preferably to prevent you from obfuscating..
You are being a bit dim, if I may say so. I don’t see why you are (allegedly) confused by the answer I gave last time. But playing your little game:

Will linear TV still exist in 2035? - yes. It will exist for live events, which must be obvious to all. As for scripted TV, I cannot rule out some minor scheduled TV content like Pluto on IPTV, but all the main ones will have died out in favour of streamed content. Pluto is very much a minority interest, but I think now with the increased prominence of VOD, they may take the view that it’s not worth continuing with linear at all. That’s the way I think it will go.

As far as DTT is concerned, even Freeview is now preparing to enhance its VOD offering. My own feeling is that the DTT offering will be replaced by 5G broadcast, but I agree that could go either way.

I have given you the one word answer in bold, with an explanation of it. As I have repeated time and again, that word ‘linear’ was commonly used to describe the traditional broadcast channels back in 2015, and I see this description still used today. You don’t seem to be able to comprehend this, although it seems very Jack and Jill to me.

I am not seeking to persuade you, or anyone on here, that my view of the future is correct. I am simply telling you what I think. You are unpersuadable anyway because you are just argumentative. Others take a different view from me for particular reasons, and that’s OK.

You cannot KNOW anything that might happen in 2035. I don’t, and neither can you or anybody else. But quite why my sharing my vision of it upsets some of you so much I cannot fathom. As you have said in the past, it’s just TV.

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
The BBC said that at the time. I don't recall you saying so. If you can link back to a contemporaneous post (i.e. from around the time the closure was announced, or implemented) that would be helpful.

Notwithstanding, premature closure is one thing. Actively going in the opposite direction of where you keep telling us this is all heading ... that's quite something else, and not a thing you get to breezily sweep under the carpet just because it's inconvenient for your predictions.
What happens in the short term is not necessarily an indicator of what will happen in the long term. I never said these changes would happen immediately, I said they should have happened by 2035.
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