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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
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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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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It has nothing to do with lack of understanding OB. It’s simply mild exasperation at your lack of self-awareness. Whenever you write a sentence that includes the phrase ‘it would make sense to…’ or ‘all that is required…’ you’re skipping over the whole part where you have to convince multimillion-dollar broadcast companies *why* they should radically overturn their own cost-effective business models in order to satisfy your own vision of the future - a vision that has everything to do with what you personally find convenient and nothing to do with even a moment’s reflection on the mere possibility that not everyone wants to use their TV the way you do.
You talk a good game, OB, but so does everyone who calls their post-match local radio phone-in at 6 o’clock on a Saturday evening.