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Originally Posted by Paul
Actually, most *are* already connected ....
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Exactly, so I was right about that.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Chris's comment that I quoted was about Ofcom not predictions, but in fairness, I've seen that you do address it elsewhere.
Most premises were connected to broadband back in 2015 so not too controversial to predict this would continue to be the case in 2025. 
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Not a decent connection, and if you recall, this was cited as a reason why terrestrial and satellite broadcasts would continue.
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Originally Posted by Chris
Except that you obviously weren’t. Here’s that part of the thread:
https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...4#post35757394
I posted that a former president of HBO believed there was a long-term future for linear broadcast because it creates ‘water-cooler moments’ that you can only derive from a shared viewing experience. (You can’t get that from streaming, by design.)
You clearly understood what he had said, then dismissed it, and predicted things would look ‘so different’ by 2025.
There is absolutely nothing whatsoever in your post that anyone could possibly understand to mean you were making some comment about availability of broadband. Blind Freddie can see you were trying to contradict Callender’s prediction that linear broadcast would be resilient.
Face it … 10 years on (your metric, not his), you have been proven categorically wrong. Every significant linear broadcaster still exists, a ton of IP-based linear-scheduled FAST channels nobody even predicted have come into being, and there are more streamers available in the UK market which plenty, but by no means all, households subscribe to in addition to their habitual use of linear broadcast schedules.
Incidentally, Colin Callender is still working in TV production at the highest levels and his list of credits is as long as your arm. I’d still listen to his predictions of the future of his industry over yours, any day of the week.
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But you keep on reciting that same erroneous argument. You only have to look back to earlier posts of mine to see that, and also, shortly after the posts you now quote, I corrected the misapprehension you and some others were under. That was way back in 2015, and you are still prattling on with these falsehoods.
The 2025 date related to broadband rollout, which would then make switching off channels possible - that’s the reason I mentioned 2025. In other words, the landscape would look entirely different and the main barrier to a terrestrial and satellite channel switch off would be removed. You know that, and it’s on the record, so why are you deliberately confusing people and wasting their time with this nonsense?
As for that ‘water cooler moment’ you were harking on about, I think some are concentrating on the wrong issues. I know there are some advantages of retaining the channels, but if the broadcasters decide to ditch the channels regardless, that argument goes out of the window. In any case, the streamers could surely do the same - release one episode per week until the whole series of a new original appears. Some of you are just putting made up problems in the way, but heaven only knows to what end.
I am sure that Colin Callander is an excellent professional person, and that you would prefer to listen to his views, but quite honestly, I’m not preventing you from doing that. I’ve told you what I think and we will see who is right with the fullness of time.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Oh, come off it! The streamers are proliferating everywhere and the pace of change is increasing all the time.
Yes, if it pleases you, you can ignore the fact that there’s no agreement to continue broadcasting from transmitters after 2034 while ignoring all the preparations the broadcasters are making for a digital future; you can ignore the fact that Sky is planning to cease the availability of its Sky Q boxes soon and has no transponder space booked after 2034; you can ignore the fact that the audience grouping loved by advertisers is watching less and less conventional TV Channels; that those TV channels are encouraging people to go online rather than scheduled TV by making more of their originals available online before they appear on the main channels…….
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With apologies for a date inaccuracy in my response to jf man, which I have corrected in bold.