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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
They won't be on the EPG as linear channels, you're just splitting hairs.
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Eh?
The linear (or not) nature of content delivery is a major aspect of this entire discussion. Have you gone wading in without bothering to understand the context (again)?
FAST channels have an EPG. The platform has developed piecemeal so EPGs for linear channels delivered over IP lack a unifying brand name (Freeview and Freesat are, at the end of the day, brand names for an EPG more than anything else, even though the branding encompasses the entire user experience). But nevertheless they all have one.
Notwithstanding any of the above, the major bone of contention ever since this thread and its predecessors got going was whether or not the advent of on-demand streaming services meant that linear scheduled broadcast TV was doomed to end.
FAST channels are the very reason why on-demand streaming *will not* become the exclusive delivery method for TV. Free, Advert-Supported TV over internet protocol, IP being the delivery technology most of us will be using 10 years from now.