Thread: The future of television
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Old 14-05-2024, 12:41   #835
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Re: The future of television
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
So are ‘they’ going to make broadband free … you know, like it’s free to put up an aerial and receive radio waves? Maybe that’s a new thing to do with the TV licence?
I have no idea; it was a proposal a few years ago, but I haven’t seen any government enthusiasm for this.

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Yet there are still banks, only fewer of them. A bit like linear television.

I can think of many billions of reasons why broadband won't simply be given away to placate an unrealistic and unnecessary fantasy of ending linear television.
You and your linear TV hang up!

It is pretty self evident that broadcasts receivable by aerial will no longer be available in the foreseeable future, and after that it will all be via IPTV. The ‘linear channel’ issue is a separate consideration from that because they could still carry on as now (but via IPTV) if the channels chose (or were compelled) to do so.

We now have the FAST channels as well, which in my opinion are likely to survive these changes as they are streamed anyway.

So everyone will, in fact, need broadband to receive their programmes. Perhaps the licence fee could be adjusted and re-purposed to pay for basic broadband speeds to enable people to watch their TVs.
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