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Originally Posted by epsilon
Because I get my information from the industry rather than limiting my research to the perspective of a right wing newspaper with an agenda.
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You are not going to win an argument by rubbishing the source of links that confirm that a statement or position put forward is actually correct. That is a sure sign that the author disputing that point of view does not have any evidence to support the alternative they are advocating. This theme is splashed all over the media, including broadcast media, and it’s a fact that broadcasters don’t want to keep using DTT. It’s simply too expensive with the diminishing audience that is viewing in this way, and their view is that maintaining channels as well as streamers is an unnecessary expense.
The situation I have outlined will change only if the government intervenes. But do they have the money to compensate for the maintenance of an increasingly uneconomic system? Well, I suspect you know the answer to that one.
As for pensioners and any other non-tech savvies, even I can come up with a solution to that one that my late granny could use, and she didn’t even like to change a channel. It’s not hard! Just give them a box with the free on demand streamers on it and enable a setting which delivers a pre-set streamer each time you switch on if necessary. It can then go straight into a selection of programming from that streamer without pressing any further buttons if required. Remote controls could also enable switching streamers in the same way that some are already available with the Netflix button on it, for example.
The industry would pay that to achieve a DTT switch off and it could be part of a revised PSB remit.
That is more likely to be the type of intervention the government makes, and the broadcasters will accept that.
If you find any recent information that contradicts this post, please do provide it - I am all ears.