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Old 27-02-2019, 20:07   #625
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Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
Oh, Den, you are so parochial!

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What about the outcry there would be from Sky Sports subscribers who could not receive the new football streaming service? Best to wait until the job is done, don't you think?
I'm quite sure that the capitalists at Amazon aren't holding off on this lucrative venture because of the small number of Sky Sports subscribers who can't get adequate broadband.

Sky didn't hold off because of the number of homes without direct line of sight to a satellite dish, in conservation areas or because landlords sometimes don't allow tenants to install a dish.

There's plenty of outcries to be had out there because Sky increase their content, but as Neil Diamond sings money talks.

Similarly there'd be nothing preventing an Amazon channel getting carriage on Sky or Virgin Media to complement its streaming offering, priced at a premium and obviously a second class product by comparison. Yet... they don't.

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Things will look very different in 15 years' time and solutions will be found to the capacity issues that you envisage now.
Even if solved the basics of economics will always apply. There's no indication that they can offer a product cheaper or better offering the same content as Sky and turn a profit in doing so.
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