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Originally Posted by Raider999
So effectively, linear channels disappear and are replaced with a menu of streaming options. Don't see the point in that personally.
I think you underestimate the number of technophobes, like your wife, who just like to switch on the to and look at the EPG to see what is currently on.
It has reminded me of a friend who told me his father wouldn't even use the recording facilities on sky - he continued to use his vhs recorder because that was what he knew!
As I have said before, I don't believe the 'super fast broadband is just round the corner' propaganda - the vast majority of the country will still be waiting for it in 10-15 years time.
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Even if it were just around the corner you still need to evolve consumer behaviour radically to make linear tv not commercially viable. It’s all the same companies pushing the same content at you in a slightly different way.
Hayu, cited above, is owned by NBCUniversal and we know where that web ends.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
And yet it's the landscape that the BBC is planning to address as part of its vision for what happens following the next licence fee review.
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Like any public sector organisation vision and delivery are two different things.
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15 or so years is a long time and much can happen in that time. You've only got to look at how TV has changed since the old analogue days, which was pretty recent. We didn't even have VOD in those days!
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14 years ago VOD launched and it’s biggest proponents NTL and Telewest sold that as the end of linear TV.
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Most people in work currently do not have problems with new technology. A person who retires this year will be 80 in 15 years' time. Besides which, if I am right, and satellite and cable services of the future have all the main streaming services integrated, they will be pretty user friendly by 2035, which is the date I've suggested by when the linear channels will be no more.
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Those out of work? The disabled? People who just find the current EPG convenient?
Users who wanted to eliminate watching broadcast television altogether could through timeshifting on DVR or existing libraries of on demand content. To that extent streaming isn’t bringing anything new to the table, it’s just delivered using different technology from on demand.