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Originally Posted by Chris
You started all this off three years ago (i.e. in 2015) in a thread called “the future of linear TV channels’. The thread is still viewable and I have provided links to it so that everyone can see how, in the first 100 or so posts, you argued that linear broadcast TV would be supplanted by streaming services in around 10 years.
There’s really no point arguing any more ... you may say what you like but the posts are there for all to see (if they’re bored enough) ... the only thing that renders this mildly amusing is you continuing to claim you said something very different in the face of your own published comments.
I shall leave it there, as I’m boring myself to sleep now and have work to do anyway. Last word is yours if you want it.
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2015, huh? Well, on 26 January 2015 #63, the following post appears:
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Originally Posted by andy_m
It's not about being stuck in my ways, I can't see how the scenario you're outlining is better. I, and everybody, would need a stable unlimited broadband connection, to know that there weren't capacity issues in my area and that we'd always have speeds capable of delivering hd telly. We would have no choice to access tv but to pay the licence fee AND a broadband subscription, and that's before you take into account that literally everybody else in the country would be doing the same. You think evening is peak time for broadband now?
Not only is it a long long way off, we already have a system that works, backed up well by internet based solutions. Wanting to keep it isn't a case of being stuck in our ways! It's an acknowledgement that things are already pretty good.
If your question is what's wrong with moving to the system you've outlined then I think your question is wrong. It should be what's right with it? And I think part of the answer is that we are simply nowhere near the infrastructure, or the desire, or even the necessity, required.
OLD BOY replied:
Well, I would say that the situation I have described is better because you don't have to be a slave to the decisions of the programme schedulers - you can see the programme whenever you want to - and you don't have to put up with all those advertisements.
I appreciate that there are things that need to be sorted out first, such as giving everyone access to broadband at an appropriate speed, but I do think that this is about 10 years + away. I'm sure it will come, though.
Incidentally, don't most people pay a broadband subscription already? And if there has to be a TV licence, it is only fair that anyone with access to BBC programmes should pay it.
That's not to say that I necessarily agree with the TV licence, by the way!
You can keep spinning your line about 10 years if you want to, Chris, but even back in 2015 I was saying that linear TV channels (in the traditional sense) would disappear by 2035.
My references to 10 years have been referring to other things. For example, whether broadband will be robust enough, and the fact that things will look very different in 10 years. I stand by that, but as far as linear channels (except streaming channels) being abolished I have always said that I thought this would happen by 2035.
Anyhow, I don't see why you are making such a big thing out of what I think will happen. The fact that the BBC now say they are also planning to ditch conventional transmitter broadcasting after the next licence fee review surely shows I was thinking along the right lines. Those who have challenged me by saying it will never happen are way off beam.