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Originally Posted by jfman
You've no evidence at all, despite often proclaiming that you do.
Streamers are now becoming a higher cost, lower quality, reduced choice alternative to the platforms they are displacing. Anything you can see will only get slower, not faster, as the market evolves.
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I'm not convinced that you are actually looking at what is happening on the ground. TV channels like Disney channels are rapidly disappearing and many more will follow. How do you explain that, having regard to your TV channel obsession?
Have you actually looked at the linear offerings recently? Hardly anything worth watching, unless of course, your standards are a lot lower than mine.
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Originally Posted by jfman
You've no evidence at all, despite often proclaiming that you do.
Streamers are now becoming a higher cost, lower quality, reduced choice alternative to the platforms they are displacing. Anything you can see will only get slower, not faster, as the market evolves.
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The evidence is what is happening right in front of your eyes.
I accept that you cannot see this.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Agreed. It makes Disney+ a more all-round service and more of a substitute for Now TV.
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Disney+ is mainly kids' stuff but the Star brand is increasing content choice. It has a long way to go before adult content is at a sufficient level to attract adults. When they get there, they will give Netflix a run for their money. But they are not there yet.
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Originally Posted by General Maximus
I agree. If streaming services start pulling all their content from channels then the 200+ channels on Sky for example will disappear and it will be whittled down to a few and then you have got to ask yourself if Sky will even to be able to keep up. As they aren't a global platform they won't be able to keep up with producing the volume of original content that streaming services currently do and customers will move to other services which are cheaper and provide more and better quality content.
Will Sky be relegated to the likes of the BBC, have a handful of channels and a streaming service which produces budget domestic programming?
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Forget channels. Sky need to develop a new streamer and fill it with as many originals as they can put forward, supplemented by as much legacy stuff as they can muster.