[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Chris

I posted my opinions on a discussion forum and people started discussing them

Except it wasn’t a discussion, was it? It was trolling, baiting and character assassination. Debating is one thing some forum members find difficult to cope with.

I must say, you lot are pretty good at ridicule. I wonder who will have the last laugh?

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

I prefer to record my programmes rather than stream them as streaming services have expiry dates and sometimes don't have subtitles. They also don't have QuickView (though as Virgin are phasing this out, this is now a moot point),

I had hoped that if linear TV channels ended up being streamed instead of the traditional way, that the technology would allow us to continue recording them.

However, i've now discovered that ITV and (from the 27th) the BBC are to limit what you have recorded onto your hard drive to what's available via VOD if you receive your TV signal over the Internet on EE or BT TV.

I'm sure that this will be rolled out to other platforms and by other broadcasters for any devices with a recording facility (though the new Sky & Virgin streaming boxes don't have recording facilities anyway).

There's the usual spin about how TV is evolving and how it will benefit the consumer. How, exactly? If you record something not available on VOD, you won't be able to watch it. If it expires, you'll no longer be able to watch it.

I suspect that you'll no longer be able to FF through adverts on the commercial channels on your own recordings too.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...g-feature.html

This is not really news, Richard. If you stop subscribing to Sky Cinema programmes, you will find that all your recordings from these channels disappear. This has been the case for some time.

It is wrong, I agree. I do believe that you should be able to access all content from on demand on payment of a subscription or on pay per view. But we are in the hands of the content providers until such time that legislators decide to change it.

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Originally Posted by jfman

If only there was a way to confirm who gets most exercised about the subject, aside from your dissertation/diatribe night before last.

Oh wait, there is.

I must have spent most of my time on here answering your interminable questions on what is linear TV and other similar nonsense and your criticisms of points I’ve never even made. Despite seeing what you are doing, I’ve entered into the spirit of responding for those who are genuinely interested.

Look in the mirror, jfman.

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Originally Posted by jfman

My point is that OB’s claim of indifference doesn’t stack up. Evidenced by the multiple threads he’s generated on the same subject, and the tendency for many threads to be sidetracked by it being the reason for this one as Chris explains in post #1.

For any one post I put on here with one or more links, I get multiple trolling responses to which I try my best to respond with respect.

The rest is history, and it’s all here! ^

I can assure you, it matters not to me if we don’t exactly meet 2035! This seems to bother you rather than it does me! I simply stated how I think things would look in 20 years’ time (back in 2015).

I think at least a substantial amount, if not all, of my prediction so far is exactly on track. The only thing I didn’t anticipate was the advent of the FAST channels.