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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
https://rxtvinfo.com/2025/concerns-o...-end-freeview/
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Broadcasters say that as more viewers switch to online, the existing digital terrestrial TV (DTT) network, used for Freeview, is becoming more expensive to maintain – based on a cost per viewer basis. The future of satellite TV is also uncertain.
Digital terrestrial TV is still the most popular traditional TV platform. The platform, which carries the Freeview service, is particularly relied upon by poorer and/or older viewers. Younger viewers are more likely to be online-only.
At present, all licences to broadcast services on Freeview expire at the end of 2034. The main UK public broadcasters have shown little interest in providing a traditional broadcast service beyond this point. Last year, they grouped together to create Freely to help migrate more people to internet TV.
Well, you can take me seriously or not, but to attempt to persuade people that conversion to IPTV only is not coming are just burying their heads in the sand.
This link appears to confirm everything I have said about 2035. Of course, the persistent refusniks on here will find some reason to deny it, but those with open minds will find it difficult to deny that this is now becoming a realistic prediction. Terrestrial TV will be no more in 2035.
Sad for some, but true. Now the government needs to start working with broadcasters to tackle the remaining barriers to a smooth transfer (eg making IPTV accessible to those unfamiliar with the technology, particularly some elderly people); broadband access, etc.
These are not insurmountable problems, but they do need to be addressed now to ensure a smooth transition.
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That site is very opinion based and often gets the facts wrong, so not a great way of confirming your opinion. You're just saying someone else has an opinion which is partially similar to your own. A good example of confirmation bias.
If you are looking at Freely to prove that IPTV is the future and linear channels are about to end, forget it. It isn't IPTV in the usual sense although, as a hybrid system, has some elements of IPTV. It doesn't use DASH / HLS streaming protocols for PBS channels, so is a departure even from what the BBC did with CLM on more recent versions of Freeview. On Freely, the PSB channels on connected TVs use a form of DVB over IP. Linear channels in a DVB format similar to Freeview but delivered over the internet rather than over the airwaves. A list of Freely's PSB Service IDs can be found
here. Delivering linear channels this way allows Freely to make extra regions available and allows ITV / C4 channels to be in HD by default, even if not available on Freeview. If you are trying to use Freely as an example of an on-demand only, streaming only, platform with no linear channels. Sorry mate, get back to the drawing board.
