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Re: The future of television
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
We've done to death the 'linear' argument, Chris. You know very well that I was using the word in the commonly used context, not in the strictly technical sense.
Once it became clear that some of you were interpreting linear in that way, and not to mean scheduled channels, I clarified that live programming would be streamed.
Do you seriously believe that I ever intended anyone to think we wouldn't be able to watch live sport, etc anymore? Don't be daft!
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Pretty sure no one who disagreed with your proposition defined linear to mean anything other than "a schedule of programmes" - if they did, they were in a very small minority...
However, in Nov 2019, Chris said
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Pretty much as some of us have been saying all along ... any TV that is broadcast to a schedule is linear, regardless of whether it’s made available by terrestrial, satellite, cable or over IP.
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you said
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But the scheduled TV channels as we know them now almost certainly will not exist with IPTV
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https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...r#post36018715
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Last edited by Hugh; 04-03-2021 at 19:59.
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