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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
No, it’s not! Sky Glass has already demonstrated, surely, that the age of multiple pay-tv channels is disappearing. There are only 140 channels on Sky Glass.
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Well no, it’s a rights issue Sky don’t have the automatic right to retransmit all the free to air channels on Astra 2.
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If you can find all your programming when you want to see it on the apps, why endure a waiting time and advertisements on the live TV channels?
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The same reasons anyone has since Sky+/TiVo launched I presume.
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The key, as I keep saying, is to integrate the content from the apps so there is one central index, appropriately categorised, from which shows can be selected. Content can also be showcased in snippets if preferred.
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Yet here Sky have developed a TV that gives you what you want AND it has linear channels. And you are completely underwhelmed.
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Inevitably, as the benefits of on demand viewing start to get appreciated even by the stick-in-the-muds, there will be too few viewers left to be bothered with scheduling everything to a live platform. When the numbers get low enough, the advertising won’t be sufficient to sustain it and it simply won’t be worth the effort any more.
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Yet you’ve never fully quantified this tiny figure, and whether it falls below those who can’t get/don’t want a suitable and necessary broadband package.
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I am well aware of how things work now, jfman, but now is not the future.
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Indeed, but streaming doesn’t provide the smoking gun step change in consumption of content that would be required for your vision. If it’s about skipping ads that’s been here for almost two decades. If it’s content on demand the cable operators have been doing that since the early days of digital. Yet still, people tend to watch BBC1 live.