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Originally Posted by jfman
Yes, OB. You've never baited anyone.
While we are relieved it's not your decision since it would leave millions without television at all just to lubricate your fantasy of no broadcast, linear television before the market - supply and demand side - is prepared for is.
If (when) 2035 comes to pass with linear, scheduled television continues it won't be because of 4 or 5 users of a niche technology forum. It's the millions of households absolutely passive to the idea at all. The millions who watch television "live" despite 5 or 6 tuner devices sitting below their TV. The cable customers who watch BBC live despite having it on demand for twenty years.
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I’ve learned to give as good as I get on this Forum.
As for the rest of your post, you really don’t get it, do you? Viewers will not have the choice if the channels are wound up and replaced by on demand only. In the last 10 years, TV audiences have been watching less and less by way of our TV channels and audience growth for the streamers is pretty well the same as for the channels now. In another 10 years, the audience for the channels will have diminished to such an extent that to continue supporting them will no longer be worthwhile and there will be the same old content on repeat, watched by people advertisers are not so interested in.
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Originally Posted by jfman
The problem is your prediction is binary and you've relentlessly branded the notion of linear channels remaining as absurd. Whether as a minimalist DTT service, PSB or otherwise, or a series of channels to showcase the best pay-tv content available on Sky or anywhere else.
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Not absurd, but I think it is unlikely. Go into the streamers nowadays and you will find trailers playing in the background. Why do you need to select channels in order to do this?
While it is possible for channels and streamers to co-exist, by now even you must be asking yourself why this would be necessary, and you refuse to contemplate that we may be losing the capacity to use the bandwidth anyway!
I guess 5G broadcasts are possible, but there appear to be few signs of interest in that option in this country.
Once again, you are fighting this argument tooth and nail as if this is my decision to choose the streaming only path. It’s actually nothing to do with me, guv, I’m just reporting what I see as the likely outcome. No need to get so exercised about it.
Other views are available.