The future of television

[OLD BOY]

https://rxtvinfo.com/2024/military-u...ies-in-europe/

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UK broadcasters are pushing toward a mid-2035 terrestrial TV switch-off in favour of a streaming-only future. They’ve shown little or no interest in maintaining terrestrial TV in any form beyond this date, citing costs. However, over on the continent, broadcasters are looking at 5G Broadcast as a way of migrating to streaming while maintaining much of the current terrestrial transmitter network to deliver that service. In the long term, 5G Broadcast would use the 470-608 MHz band, if the 608+ MHz band (n71) was re-farmed for mobile use.

[jfman]

Starmer isn't going to switch off the telly when millions of homes rely upon it.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by jfman

Starmer isn't going to switch off the telly when millions of homes rely upon it.

He might not have a choice.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

He might not have a choice.

How so? None of the PSB operators can unilaterally switch off linear broadcasts. That would require legislation, which is going to be Starmer’s purview for some time to come.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

https://rxtvinfo.com/2024/military-u...ies-in-europe/

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UK broadcasters are pushing toward a mid-2035 terrestrial TV switch-off in favour of a streaming-only future. They’ve shown little or no interest in maintaining terrestrial TV in any form beyond this date, citing costs. However, over on the continent, broadcasters are looking at 5G Broadcast as a way of migrating to streaming while maintaining much of the current terrestrial transmitter network to deliver that service. In the long term, 5G Broadcast would use the 470-608 MHz band, if the 608+ MHz band (n71) was re-farmed for mobile use.

Just for balance, I attended the Great Yorkshire Show just under two weeks ago as a guest of a friend of mine, who currently works (part-time) as a Special Advisor at the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (he worked at the DCMS until recently), and he attends the ITU meetings, and has been a speaker at the World Telecommunication Development Conference and the Mobile World Conference (this info is to validate his Industry knowledge and experience), and I asked him if he believed that the U.K. would still be broadcasting TV as it currently does, or would there be a "switch off" in 2035?

His response was "as we do it now"…

[Taf]

My past career was in Radio Telecomms, working for the Home Office to provide communications for the Emergency Services. VHF and UHF signals all over the place, using custom-made equipments.

During our final months before being "privatised" lock, stock, barrel and personnel to NTL, which had been a Civil Service arm, rumours started of the move from big radio networks, to modified use of the mobile phone networks.

That move happened so quickly that if you blinked, you would have thought that you had jumped into a very different parallel universe.

"What was" can change to "what is" so quickly these days, and I suspect that high power TV and radio transmissions are on their way out.

[jfman]

https://www.techradar.com/streaming/...s-a-real-shame

Apple TV Plus has a problem: it's spending an absolute ton of money on shows that nobody's watching. And by "a ton of money", I mean exactly that: a new Bloomberg report says that Apple has spent more than $20 billion to get just 0.2% of the US streaming audience.

Ouch! Can rule them out the next Premier League auction then…

It’s a shame because Apple TV is producing some of the best material available in streaming TV. Foundation, Slow Horses and Ted Lasso are all absolutely superb (and they’re by no means the only ones). However Apple are relatively late to the game, don’t have a brand associated with TV production and are, as most of us have been pointing out for years, operating in an extremely crowded, fragmented market.

Originally Posted by Chris

It’s a shame because Apple TV is producing some of the best material available in streaming TV. Foundation, Slow Horses and Ted Lasso are all absolutely superb (and they’re by no means the only ones). However Apple are relatively late to the game, don’t have a brand associated with TV production and are, as most of us have been pointing out for years, operating in an extremely crowded, fragmented market.

BuT iT’s ThE fUtUrE!!!

Is Apple+ one of the cheaper overall ?
It has a 7 day free trial, and no adverts, and looking on the site, its £8.99 a month.
You get 3 months free with any new apple device, and you can share your subscription with up to 5 other family members.

Originally Posted by Paul

Is Apple+ one of the cheaper overall ?
It has a 7 day free trial, and no adverts, and looking on the site, its £8.99 a month.
You get 3 months free with any new apple device, and you can share your subscription with up to 5 other family members.

I get it within my Apple ONE subscription so I guess for me it’s slightly cheaper than that. But yes, it is way cheaper than Netflix, and less than Disney or Paramount. Whether it’s cheaper than Amazon depends on how much value you place in Prime delivery. We use that a lot and in a busy household it’s still useful to have free next day.

[OLD BOY]

https://rxtvinfo.com/2024/how-live-s...-could-change/

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The list of protected sports events is divided into Group A (including the Olympics, Grand National, FA Cup Final and The Derby) and Group B (including Cricket Test Matches played in England, Six Nations Rugby Matches involving Home Countries, Ryder Cup and The Commonwealth Games).

For Group B sports events, Ofcom is consulting on what is “acceptable alternative coverage”. At the moment, free-to-air highlights or delayed coverage amounting to at least 10% of the scheduled duration of the event are deemed acceptable.

The current rules allow pay TV rights holders to order free-to-air highlights to be delayed until a period has elapsed following the scheduled conclusion of the event.

Streaming-only coverage

Currently highlights have to be scheduled on a traditional linear broadcast channel.

In the future, it’s proposed that streaming services like the BBC iPlayer and ITVX will be able to screen the highlights, either on a streaming-only or streaming-first basis.

Following an industry call for evidence, Ofcom will decide on the exact rules, which will be put to a wider public consultation in 2025.

[jfman]

the Commonwealth Games.

[Taf]

I've just heard an ad on the radio for EE TV". Is it new?

[jfman]

It’s basically BT TV.

BT are making an effort to make EE their premium home broadband brand so it makes sense to add TV products to their packages.