[jfman]

The straw man army has new recruits.

As ever you either missed, potentially intentionally, the point being made. That which you are unable or unwilling to answer.

Why will the next decade be different from the last? The tech is in place to support the streaming market for the vast, vast, majority of UK households. The economics are now less favourable - they’re no longer minor add ons, often supplementing the existing pay-tv services among those households who do subscribe. They’re becoming higher cost at a time they’re investing ever decreasing amounts in content.

The biggest issue for your vision is that rational consumers in the marketplace continue to watch live, linear television. Whether they’ve had access to on demand content and hard drive recorders for twenty years. They still watch.

You come up with ludicrous ways for “the streamers” to accommodate the viewing habits of rational viewers (dropping programme once a week) for example that contradicts the viewing habits of the average streaming viewer (to binge). Neither can a streamer command when someone is likely to first watch in the same manner as a linear broadcaster who dictates the time. Streaming still needs the “content aggregator” and someone else to develop the user interface that none of them rationally would want to sign up to.