Thread: The future of television
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Old 30-07-2024, 20:10   #943
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Re: The future of television
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post

In what sense is this not calling for every major TV platform and every TV manufacturer to redesign their interfaces in favour of fledgeling streamers the end consumer may not even subscribe to?
Nobody is calling for anything. This will be in the hands of the TV platforms themselves. But given the trend towards streaming now, it would make sense to change the existing prominence towards the streamers rather than the (yawn) ‘conventional broadcast scheduled TV channels’, which are ultimately doomed anyway. The FAST channels will never command anywhere near the audiences of the streamers unless there is a future unforeseen innovation which captures the imagination.

All that is required is one button that allows you to give prominence to existing TV channels and a second to streamers on set-up, which can be altered as easily as altering the profiles on the 360. Then each time you go in, you get the choice of a channel guide (if you’ve selected the first button) or the streamers if the second has been selected.

As for finding programmes, all that is required is a central watchlist, which will require either the agreement of all the streamers or alternatively an intervention by Ofcom. Only Netflix appears to be causing problems over this.

I really find it difficult to grasp what it is you don’t understand. If you genuinely do have a problem in grasping this, it would help if you were more specific rather than giving me the usual cryptic comments.

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
I have, it’s rubbish that’s why almost nobody uses it as a primary device.

You yourself said:

‘ Live/linear/scheduled/conventional TV (whatever you want to call it) are all more prominent on Sky HD/Q and Virgin Media TiVo/360 boxes, and they are the obvious easy ways into the system. If you want to go to Netflix, Prime, etc, you need to go to the apps and get in that way.’
Amazon and others are doing the same.

As for your last paragraph, I was describing the existing position. In the future, prominence will be given to on demand.
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