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Originally Posted by Hugh
That’s the point most of have been making for the last seven years - things change, so making dogmatic predictions that things will come about by a certain date is "brave*" and "courageous*".
And, tbf, some of your recent predictions proved to be not congruent with actuality… 
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So, on this forum, nobody wants to discuss what might happen in the future. OK, message received, over and out.
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Originally Posted by Chris
If you don’t watch it at 9pm on Wednesday you can use your PVR, or catch up stream if it exists … what’s important is that the TV station organises a broadcast schedule. It doesn’t matter how it’s broadcast - the BBC One IP stream accessed via iPlayer is still a linear TV channel, showing the news, then the One Show, followed by ‘Enders and whatever else, and even though you can select stuff on demand from the same app.
The two key questions this and similar threads have tried to address over the years are:
1. Will traditional broadcast over satellite and terrestrial eventually be shut down in favour of exclusively IP delivery?
2. Will IP delivered content be scheduled, on demand, or a mixture of both?
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Questions that no-one on this forum seems to want the answer to, or even discuss properly, except to insist nothing will change. This is despite the changes along that road fitting pretty well with a prediction I made seven years ago now, when forum members thought the whole idea of on demand viewing becoming a preferred means of watching TV in the future was nonsense and couldn’t be supported anyway due to a lack of electricity.
Those comments seem rather silly now, but there you are. Wallow in the past and present if you want to, but I like to look at what may be coming down the road.
I am perfectly aware of the fact that FAST channels are linear channels (I never said they were not) - what I am saying is that I believe the main channels on our EPG’s will be grouped under one brand in future and will be available on demand only. I’m at a loss as to why some people cannot grasp that simple concept. Instead, people are obsessing over whether a method of delivery is linear or not (etc, etc) and conflating what I have said into something completely different.
Is it so difficult to grasp the concept of EPG channels being on demand only, with content accessed by category rather than channel? In the end, that is all I am saying. FAST channels may or may not survive in the long term and I have not formed a firm view on whether they will survive or whether this is just a transitional phenomenon.
Anyway, enough. If all people want to do is argue and ridicule, I guess it’s pretty pointless trying to explain it any further. Only the passage of time will confirm what will happen. I’ve told you what I think. Make of it what you will.
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Originally Posted by Paul
So the important point is that if a programme is scheduled on a "channel" at Wednesday, 9pm, and you dont watch it at 9pm on Wednesday, you have missed it (unless its scheduled to be repeated at some other time). Also, it doesnt matter how its delivered, just the fixed timing ?
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Yes, basically, but I would add that you can also record it.
It most certainly doesn’t really matter how content is delivered. All I have done is to say how I believe it will be delivered in the future.