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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
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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I don’t recall ever having read the electricity reason in relation to streaming services, not from the “getting enough” standpoint anyway, from a “cost of delivery” angle I’ve read it occasionally, because the more simultaneous streams needed the higher the cost. The streams are inefficient for live content, but obviously necessary for on-demand non-live content.
I have taken account of the mobile industry’s desire/need for their services to take current TV transmission bandwidth, that’s why I think “5G Broadcast” makes sense for the live (particularly PSB) services that remain when the rest inevitably shut down. It would mean everyone with a device (be that TV, tablet or phone) would utilise the same emission in the mast coverage range, which is much more efficient than a large number of streams for delivery to each individual.
That the UK broadcasters seem to be going down the standard tech route of delivering a large number of streams for live content, rather than the 5G Broadcast route many other countries are planning for, seems daft to me.
OB you seem to think we differ on how the end point will look in the general scheme of things, but we don’t, I just think it’s further down the line and will need to be done differently in order to be achieved, and to be achieved
for everyone. That’s why I wrote this at the end of the post you quoted, maybe I wrote so much you didn’t notice.
—> “The future will be live content and on-demand,
mostly the latter.”