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Originally Posted by epsilon
So a lot of waffle that sidesteps the question, which was to explain how your comment "the reality is..." took other options into consideration...
A simple question. I didn't ask or want you to regurgitate your beliefs. Oh well...
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It’s my conclusion, epsilon. I’m not seeking your agreement. You will stick to your guns, whatever the evidence to the contrary.
Do you deny that the studios are now putting all the good content on the streamers, leaving TV schedules looking pretty decimated compared with five years ago? Then why is it that so many of my neighbours and other people I meet complain there is nothing on the TV channels any more that they want to watch? It’s not just me saying that.
If you think the schedules are good, I’m glad you are happy. But
in my opinion (note that phrase), the days of traditional broadcasting are numbered.
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Originally Posted by Chris
Nothing new there at all.
What you believe has been clear for donkeys years, you repeat it ad nauseam every time you find a new link to a random digital marketing agency blogging on the subject. What would clarify things would be engagement with the broader topic, i.e. the alternative views epsilon has been trying to get you to engage with for the past several days.
But not only do you not engage with other possible scenarios, you misrepresent evidence supposedly in favour of your own position. Ofcom’s ’realistic trajectory’ cannot possibly be a total phase out of linear broadcast channels from 2032 when 2 of the 3 possible future pathways it has proposed, include keeping public service broadcasts on DTT. Funny how the one that aligns with your personal TV viewing habits is the one you think Ofcom sees as ‘realistic’. Confirmation bias, much?
Once again, however, the ‘tell’ that you somehow still don’t fully grasp the concepts at play here is that you seem to have totally made up the idea that Ofcom possibly sees a linear broadcast role for only news and sports channels. First of all: no, it doesn’t. The minimal DTT ‘nightlight’ service it postulates as one of its 3 future pathways would still carry the basic public service broadcasts channels. But, mainly, you seem to think retaining traditional scheduled channels for sport and news has something to do with the fact that these events happen regularly in any case and people want to engage with them ‘live.’
If you bother to read what Ofcom is actually saying, however, you would know that major peak viewing events - cultural events like royal weddings, Eurovision and major sporting fixtures - play absolute havoc with broadband networks. There is a long discussion about what demand peaks do to broadband networks on page 39 of the Ofcom report. Note in particular that Ofcom does not believe any existing IP-based technology can currently cope with an entirely IP based TV service for this reason, and it cannot predict what technologies might appear and solve that problem within the next 10 years.
So while Ofcom acknowledges a fully IP-based future for British TV as one of a range of possibilities from 2032 onwards, there is simply no way on earth you can conclude it is what they see as the ‘realistic trajectory’ when this one, of the three, would rely on technology that does not yet exist. You can’t plan a strategy that way.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/...government.pdf |
The reason for my post was to clarify my position, because even now, people on here are trotting out arguments I have not made or making presumptions about positions I have not taken.
Thank you for your take on it. Noted.