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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Yes, I get that, but the criticism is constantly about the clear conclusions I have reached based on what appears obvious to me. The only reason I keep repeating myself is because I keep getting responses (repeated responses) which appear to miss the point completely. None of the usual suspects are prepared even to consider that what I say might be true, but no-one, absolutely no-one has come up with a serious reason why that should not happen.
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Significant reasons include simply that the telecommunications infrastructure isn’t close to being resilient enough and on a consistent and near universal basis, and it won’t be for a quite some time if those delivering the content persist on using the capacity so inefficiently, and continue to make technical choices that fail to change this. If they keep with the current approach even those in the better areas will suffer a subpar experience and there will be far too many who just won’t get a service at all and could be 2nd class citizens as there isn’t the will to do what it takes to maintain a service to them, new tech or old, because the companies are looking at this in too simplified, an unhuman, a way. I don’t want anyone being left out of society because some companies decided the data/numbers don’t work. We could end up with a sizeable minority effectively cut off with some of the strategies some organisations are adopting.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I acknowledge that my assessment of the future may not be 100% correct, obviously. I have pointed out before that I’m not Nostradamus! But surely nobody can disregard the growing acceptance of streaming at the expense of linear TV. I am just stating the obvious (ie that linear channels are losing advertising revenue and new originals to streamers, which will ultimately have consequences).
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Linear TV delivered using the internet is streamed. The future will be live content and on-demand, mostly the latter. Though I think virtually everyone agrees on this these days. Sorry for being so pedantic, that’s just me.