SD : Broadcast TV to close by 2030?

[nialli]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

The only things I can see surviving the viewing revolution is rolling news broadcasts.

and sport.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Yes, Den, but 15 years ago hardly anyone used the internet to shop, and even seven years ago, a lot of people wouldn't go there. But now, it's taken off.

It's only a matter of time before we all select our own viewing. As the younger generation brings into the population the latest ways of doing things, it is only a matter of time before these old ways really do start looking antiquated.

Why anyone should want to watch live broadcasting these days (apart from sport), I really don't know. Those ads drive me mad, as does having to wait until a previous programme ends before I can watch the one I'm waiting for to start!

On the other hand, on streaming services, you lose all the suspense in cliffhanger endings as you can just watch the next episode as soon as you want.

Netflix are riding high at the moment... In ten years, they could be as dead as those companies who relied on the video and dvd rental market to survive.

They will certainly need to radically improve their searching, and I don't mean just add more categories. It's too difficult, IMO, to find something decent on Netflix without being exposed to tons of crap. Personally, I want to push a button and be entertained when I get home. I don't want to be searching out one of a thousand TV shows I might like to watch.

And don't suggest suggestions. In my experience, it recommends episodes from 5 or 6 TV shows you watch. As soon as you venture outside those 5 or 6 shows, it starts recommending crap. And yes, I have spent a long time rating shows and films, so Netflix *should* have a fairly good idea of what I like to watch.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

BBC is stuffed with adverts for their own programmes and services. .

I don't watch many shows via iplayer, but non of the ones that I have watched have had adverts in them.

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by passingbat

I don't watch many shows via iplayer, but non of the ones that I have watched have had adverts in them.

Technically BBC do advertise they advertise the tv licence quite often.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

Technically BBC do advertise they advertise the tv licence quite often.

But do they ever do that, part way through a show you are watching on iplayer? I've never seen that.

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by passingbat

But do they ever do that, part way through a show you are watching on iplayer? I've never seen that.

Not seen it on iplayer yet.

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by passingbat

But do they ever do that, part way through a show you are watching on iplayer? I've never seen that.

Don't know about i-player but I've seen them shoved in every 1/2 hr or so into Breakfast and also between the news and weather forecast.

Rarely if ever watch BBC output anyway.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Don't know about i-player.

But it was I player I was talking about.

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by passingbat

But it was I player I was talking about.

Seeing as they're embedded in the Breakfast programme I expect you'll see them on i-player.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Seeing as they're embedded in the Breakfast programme I expect you'll see them on i-player.

Seriously? People watch the Breakfast programme on i-player?

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Seriously? People watch the Breakfast programme on i-player?

There are plenty of very sad people out there.

If I'm working in the kitchen for an extended period, the iPlayer on my iPad is my TV and radio.

Sometimes I'll choose a documentary on iplayer catchup or a playlist from Spotify but if it's evening, as often as not I'll have broadcast TV or radio playing.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Stuart

On the other hand, on streaming services, you lose all the suspense in cliffhanger endings as you can just watch the next episode as soon as you want.

Netflix are riding high at the moment... In ten years, they could be as dead as those companies who relied on the video and dvd rental market to survive.

They will certainly need to radically improve their searching, and I don't mean just add more categories. It's too difficult, IMO, to find something decent on Netflix without being exposed to tons of crap. Personally, I want to push a button and be entertained when I get home. I don't want to be searching out one of a thousand TV shows I might like to watch.

And don't suggest suggestions. In my experience, it recommends episodes from 5 or 6 TV shows you watch. As soon as you venture outside those 5 or 6 shows, it starts recommending crap. And yes, I have spent a long time rating shows and films, so Netflix *should* have a fairly good idea of what I like to watch.

It's just that this is what you are used to, Stuart. My experience of just pushing the on switch and watching what is thrown at me, together with those incessant commercial breaks, is that this exposes me to the 'tons of crap' (as you so delicately put it) that you say you wish to avoid.

I am surprised really that you are so easily satisfied with watching one or two linear channels each night, but if that's what lights your fire, I'd make the most of it if I were you! And as for channel hopping, I do find that to be the most unsatisfactory experience - all those channels and nothing you want to watch!

[spiderplant]

Here are last week's top viewed programmes (source: BARB). This is why it won't happen.

STRICTLY COME DANCING (SAT 1902) 11.46
STRICTLY COME DANCING: THE RESULTS (SUN 1915) 10.53
I'M A CELEBRITY GET ME OUT OF HERE! (SUN 2102) 9.45
CHILDREN IN NEED (FRI 1930) 8.54
CORONATION STREET (MON 1931) 8.17
EASTENDERS (TUE 1929) 8.02
EASTENDERS (MON 2000) 8.02
THE APPRENTICE (WED 2102) 7.8
CORONATION STREET (MON 2029) 7.8
THE MISSING (TUE 2100) 7.68
CORONATION STREET (WED 1931) 7.61
EASTENDERS (THU 1929) 7.42
THE X FACTOR RESULTS (SERIES 11) (SUN 1959) 7.22
COUNTRYFILE (SUN 1815) 6.85
THE X FACTOR (SERIES 11) (SAT 2014) 6.74
CORONATION STREET (FRI 1932) 6.74
EMMERDALE (MON 1900) 6.46
EMMERDALE (THU 1902) 6.28
EMMERDALE (TUE 1901) 6.08
EMMERDALE (WED 1900) 5.98

[denphone]

Well there is only two programmes l like their but alas as usual TOH thinks differently.