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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
We spend far too much time agonising over what a ‘linear channel’ is. We all know it is scheduled TV, which includes live streams, but over time the media has used the phrase very loosely to mean our conventional TV channels as shown on our EPGs.
Given the title of this thread, we need to be less picky about these terms and the pedantic detail as demonstrated in so many posts and actually debate how we see TV changing over the years.
Much now depends on the government’s attitude to switching off the transmitter signals in favour of IPTV, which they may have trouble resisting, given the international pressure to make more bandwidth available for 5G, the cost to broadcasters in paying out for conventional broadcasting over the transmitters when a cheaper alternative is available, etc.
Then, if IPTV becomes the means of broadcasting TV, there is the question of (a) whether audiences will choose ‘on demand’ over the listed channels and (b) whether the broadcasters themselves actually want to spend more than they need to so that people are given that option.
We will see, but I think I know where this will end.
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There’s nothing pedantic about trying to avoid you conflating two separate things - linear television which (although the vast majority of it is consumed over terrestrial, satellite or cable) isn’t technology dependant and the end of terrestrial, satellite and DVB-C cable broadcasts in favour of IP based solutions (which can be both linear or on demand).
You could actually end the conversation right now by clarifying.