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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Sorry to hear some of you are having such trouble with your internet. Mine hasn’t gone down in a very long time. Nor have I experienced any power cuts for years.
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As ever, OB you are viewing things through the prism of your own experience and not the market as a whole. The vast majority of people, the vast majority of the time, have no issues. It doesn’t mean they’d choose to have a hard drive recorder that doesn’t work during outages.
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Some of you seem to be of the view that the consumer actually has a choice in the matter when it is quite obvious that broadcasters are doing their best to encourage people in that direction. The BBC, ITV and Sky are all at it, as is Virgin Media.
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Yet none of these service providers have any concrete plans to do as you suggest.
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Yes, jfman, it is all down to the money to be made, and while the TV channels are still able to make money now, there will come a point before long where most of those still choosing to watch scheduled TV rather than on demand will be viewers in the lower income bracket, who are of less interest to the advertisers.
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Ah the “there will come a point” old chestnut. Where? When?
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Yes, I get that, but my point was that the consumer will no longer have a hard drive on which to make their recordings.
I accept the technical difference you have explained in terms of how ‘recording to the cloud’ works, but consumers will not distinguish between that and bookmarking.
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You absolutely don’t get it, nor have any interest in “getting it”. Your very interest in this thread is merely to sidetrack it rather than discuss the substantive issue at hand - Virgin TV services in 2024. Not 2044.