Thread: The future of television
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Old 09-06-2021, 19:55   #264
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Re: The future of television
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post



Well no, OB.

Even if you use the BT Sport app, or Sky Sports on "TV from Sky" on a PlayStation despite neither of them being broadcast "over the air" they present what is available live now and what is available "later" in a chronological fashion.

Do you think the average consumer wants to fire up these apps and see a jumble sale of content from the next 7 days with what is available now appearing on page 4 or 5 of a menu?

I think such a concept is palpably ridiculous.
It makes sense to list the times of PPV events, of course it does. But these aren’t really EPGs in the same sense. Currently, EPGs set out programmes on TV channels, one programme following another in a continuous schedule.

With PPV events, you may well get live events set out in time order, but they need not be sequential in the same way as a channel is - they will either be displayed in order of times or they could be displayed by event type (eg football, concerts, etc). Some of these events will overlap rather than be back to back.

But the concept of TV channels will not generally exist because it would not be a popular choice in an OTT environment.

I would be very interested to know what proportion of Now’s audience watch programmes on their live channels via the EPG rather than from the on demand section of the streamer.
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