Thread: VOD Netflix/Streaming Services
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Old 07-08-2019, 19:51   #5909
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Invoking economics isn't the same as understanding it, Old Boy.

There is actually a magic formula it's where the costs (low) outweigh the benefits (huge). The less linear channels there are the more prominent the remaining ones are in EPGs. So the business models become better.

Imagine being the only channel left. Everyone switches their TV on and there you are, like the North Korean state broadcaster. Everyone with an internet outage- watching you. In hotels, caravans and bedrooms in low bandwidth homes.
Unless viewers choose to watch what they want instead of what the schedulers want you to watch!

I do agree with you that it is not as straight forward as saying 'That line is pointing up and the other one down, so we will just continue to project those lines in a linear fashion'. That is precisely why I have said it is not as easy as that, and therefore fixing a date for the last channel going off air is pointless. A lot may happen to skew current projections.
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