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Originally Posted by jfman
If linear has no future, and the world will be a bland interface of junk apps pushed to you by whatever Chinese tv manufacturers push at you, then whatever you add yourself, why are Sky buying ITV?
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In short, I'd say to either kill Freeview and Freely in the long term, or, jump into bed with them. There is no way that Sky Stream, Now, Freeview/Freely and ITVX all survive ten years from now.
With ad revenues being gobbled up by the likes of youtube and global streamers ruling the "waves", as far as drama goes, it does seem a slghtly odd move. But hey, it's a competitor taken out for a relatively small sum, so Sky might be cracking open the bubbly stuff right now.
And on the blank interface point, I give the answer I gave on this site several years ago on that. The current streaming interfaces are just a stepping stone to what I call true intelligent tv. And what will it look like? Well, in many ways what it looked like decades ago with there being perhaps 5-6 main "channels" showing a linear schedule, which can then be exited at whim to watch anything you want. And probably the tv will know what you want to watch next before you do.