[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by epsilon

It gave him the obvious answer "It looks like the “parallel DVB over IP” part of the Freely service in the UK is intended as a transition rather than a permanent fix.."
Any parallel service is transitional, the same applied to radio and analogue / digital tv transitions. The hybrid system is always transitional, until the legacy system is turned off.

Let's dive deeper with OB's favoured friend... err.. AI chatbot.

Asking a similar question to OB, it gave the reply (lots of irrelevant AI nonsense clipped):
Moving on...

What do you mean by "transitional step"?

Next question...

So the broadcast + IP stage is transitional but what about the new DVB over IP infrastructure is this a permanent replacement?

I went on to ask more but I'll spare you the replies, it was basically to test the AI's technical knowledge of Freely specs (which are not in the public domain). It (ChatGPT) made numerous errors about the actual technology used as did Google but both concluded that the hybrid system is transitional and that the DVB over IP system currently employed is the permanent (long term) replacement for DTT (DVB/T DVB/T2) infrastructure. Which is what I was saying in the first place. A final word from Google.

QED

I don’t disagree with most of this. But the argument about what we will have in the future falls apart if the channels no longer exist, don’t they?


That is the point!