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Old 14-10-2024, 10:09   #924
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Re: Virgin TV (2024)
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Originally Posted by cheekyangus View Post
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.


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.
That sounds a bit like that old 'not enough electricity to power too many people using streamers' argument, which is patently untrue (the electricity grid is constantly being powered up to keep up with demand). I don't think you are taking account either of the increasing pressure to use the bandwidth currently used for broadcasts to be utilised for mobile signals. We already know that Sky is moving its satellite customers over to IPTV, and existing satellite transponder contracts expire in 2030. Although Sky may still decide to extend these contracts up to another five years, this appears unlikely, but I certainly don't discount it.

In the future, I believe that the main entertainment, film and documentary channels people watch now will be on demand, live broadcasts such as sport will be live streamed and the only other live streamed channels will be the FAST channels once the broadcast signal becomes unavailable.

Having said that, I recognise that you think otherwise, so we shall see.
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