Thread: General Changes to Virgin TV (2021)
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Old 22-05-2021, 13:32   #514
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Re: Changes to Virgin TV (2021)
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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
Why is it some of you guys can’t use streaming now when it’s an option when you say that linear is dying - why don’t you practice what you preach to others?

Or is possible that in the future, like now, it will be a mixture of streaming and linear, because that’s what’s convenient and what people want?
Well, I do stream live programmes from the i-Player quite frequently. I always watch Andrew Marr and Prime Minister’s Questions that way. As I have explained, there is a delay of a few hours in uploading programmes that have already ended on the i-Player, which is why I record it.

Anyhow, it is nothing to do with this debate how I or anyone else organises their viewing. It is already self-evident that channels have been closing recently - with more to come - and the content transferred to streamers.

It will be interesting to see how Virgin and Sky respond to this continuing trend as it takes hold, but I suspect we will be presented with bouquets of streamers and players price packaged as the TV channels currently are, with a much wider choice of streamers available.

An alternative view might be that Virgin will abandon the TV side of the business, recognising that modern connected TVs already offer more streamers than they do.

Losing channels such as Fox will diminish the TV offerings available and will make people less enthusiastic about subscribing to pay TV via linear channels. Apparently, National Geographic will disappear from the TV channel line-up within the year as well. What will replace these channels as they are taken off, one by one and batch by batch?
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