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Old 05-04-2025, 19:03   #1141
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Re: The future of television

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
So what? Public broadcasters have failed to support retaining a terrestrial TV service, and other commercial broadcasters such as Sky will not waste time with it either.

Some of the much smaller channels may wish to continue broadcasting, but they won’t capture much interest, and the cost of the infrastructure will mean the current system will be rendered unviable.

As I have said repeatedly, in the end, if the TV industry decides to go IPTV only, then IPTV it will be. Internet refuseniks will then have to reassess their view on this.
Not for the first time, you sound like one of those futurology picture books you used to be able to buy from the Puffin Book Club at school.

The sort that breezily assured us we’d have an android maid bustling round every respectable home by now.

I had a copy of this one, published in 1978. I loved it. But most of its contents turned out to be utter gonads.



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