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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
And that, of course is what I was alluding to. One surviving channel would be claimed as a victory for you, but everyone else with any common sense will take my view of the future to be a darned sight more accurate than yours. The extremely high bar you have set simply shows the extent of your desperation to be proved right.
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A darned sight
Old Boy it's you who have made absolutely definitive statements in ignorance of the evidence and, as I've pointed out on many occasions, the extreme difficulties in moving consumer behaviour in such a drastic manner without state intervention.
I've described a fairly accurate future in the past - customers will continue to enjoy a diverse range of content over IP and traditional broadcast, on demand and linear. I don't see huge amounts of people running to disagree me, I just see you moving the goalposts, over and over spinning the words of others in a desperate attempts to give yourself any credibility at all.
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The essential issue for me is that conventional scheduled TV channels will simply not be necessary in (now) 15 years' time. Everything will be on the internet, and having programmes grouped by channel will be ridiculous. They may be grouped by category, and that would make sense, but by channel? Why?
Pluto type channels will continue as long as people keep watching them but I think audience figures will be low. I notice that even Pluto are making on demand selections more prominent now, and I can understand why.
Anyway, it will all come out in the wash, as they say. Let's just watch and learn. I won't say I told you so in 15 years' time (if I am still here). I'll let you figure that out for yourself.
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Old Boy if this is going to be another Saturday night where you are going to contradict yourself I'm tired of the contortions of your argument. In one paragraph linear is dead, in the next plucky upstarts Pluto TV will do what Sky (and others) can't - maintain a linear presence while moving 75, 80, 90+ per cent of their business to streaming.