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Re: The future for linear TV channels,
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Originally Posted by gunner45
Just because something is said repeatedly does not make it right. Traditionally linear referred to everything that was broadcast, and you could look up the programme schedules to find out what was coming. But now we have live programmes, some by choice (like BBC iPlayer news) and some scheduled (like FAST channels). And on Virgin Media's EPG I counted 39 FAST channels, all scheduled: I say these are linear as they are scheduled and on the EPG, and the fact that they are delivered by IP is of no interest to the viewer.
And just to be clear: under this definition which is user-centric, live is only linear when it is scheduled and live can also be non‑linear when it is user‑initiated (on-demand). It's only when you disentangle live from linear can you see how IPTV is changing how we consume content.
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FYI (and as Chris had said, this is a very long ongoing discussion), one of our esteemed CF’ers (who believes Live TV will be extinct by 2035, and "StReaMinG is the FutUrE!!!") defined Linear TV as
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Linear TV is live in the sense that we are watching it as it is being broadcast. That’s why it is often described as ‘live TV’.
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