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Old 14-02-2021, 11:43   #1679
jfman
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Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
It's not a question of being unable to. It's a question of whether it is worthwhile as audiences diminish.

All organisations big and small strip out unnecessary costs to maximise profits and to compete.
So why will it be worthwhile for Pluto TV to chase this audience but not Sky? Sky though their prevalence of +1 channels have already demonstrated an interest in clogging the EPG to pursue a 0.1 rating on the BARB scale. And actually, if there's going to be such a service, Sky would probably prefer to offer it and crowd out the competition in the television market as a whole.

I think this is the crux of your confusion. You don't consider streamers and existing pay-tv incumbents to be in the same marketplace and that customers will migrate from one to the other on the basis of technological change. Actually, pay-tv incumbents are well placed to continue to serve everyones preferences across a range of technologies including streaming.

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