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Old 13-02-2021, 22:39   #1651
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Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
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.



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.
Honestly, jfman, listen to yourself! You have set the bar so high, that even if one linear channel remains in 15 years, you will claim that you have won the argument! I don’t think that many on here, even your supporters, would agree with that.

I have given plenty of links to support my claims, and you have given us only your opinions. I am not contradicting myself at all, no matter how many times you say it. The existing conventional scheduled TV channels will cease to exist. That is the thrust of my argument, and you continue to try to muddy the waters with technical definitions of what constitutes a linear channel, etc.

I have tried really hard to put across what I believe will be the future of TV, and you are still so wrapped up in disbelief, you try to throw all this ‘technical’ confusion around just to be argumentative. We all see through you, old chap, and trying to diss me by attempting to have people believe that I am changing my position on this does you no credit. My position remains the same, no matter how you try to confuse issues.

So, play with your channel numbers as much as you like, and make the most of it. The future is the internet. You heard it here first...
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