Thread: The future of television
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Old 19-03-2025, 16:44   #1087
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Re: The future of television
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
You’ve heard plenty of reasoned arguments, repeatedly, over many years. They just don’t align with your opinion, so you dismiss them and tell yourself that dismissing an argument is somehow the same as disproving it.

Also LOL at you posting an article that proves terrestrial TV is a highly valued commodity and then somehow concluding the government must inevitably decide to pi$$ everyone off by authorising its switch-off.

And further LOL at whoever wrote that piece observing the BBC has failed to ‘commit’ to continued support of terrestrial broadcast, as if that means it might unilaterally pull the plug, when in fact it is not up to the BBC to decide that - it is part of its charter conditions, which are set by parliament, not by the BBC.
I’m not sure where you are coming from - it’s like you are living on a different planet.

As the article says:

‘In 2024, free-to-air broadcasters and regulator Ofcom warned of a tipping point in terms of the viability of terrestrial TV broadcasts. The BBC highlighted the increasing cost of terrestrial TV per user. It also put a question mark over whether or not it could justify the ongoing expenditure.’

The article references the public’s preference to continue to broadcast terrestrially, but you ignore completely the financial issues associated with continuing to use transmitters for this purpose.

It does not cost peanuts to broadcast this way as jfman supposes, and the move to IP will lead to broadcasters wanting to disseminate their content through streaming only, which may or may not include streaming channels to replace existing ones. Streaming will finish off the ability for people to record shows, which is what broadcasters and content providers want, and advertisers want to prevent people from skipping over advertisements.

This may seem to you to be a controversial subject, and there are still some on here who cannot even envisage this, but it doesn’t make what I have said incorrect. The advantages of broadcasting via IP is too great to be resisted.
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