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The CF equivalent of
"of course I have a girlfriend! Why haven’t you met her? Oh, she lives in Canada..." Anyway, back in the U.K., in 2035, what will people do for TV if they don’t have Broadband or their Broadband goes down? |
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If I give up drinking in 2011 and my wife leaves me in 2016, someone might ask if she left because of my drinking. If I then say she left me after I had stopped drinking, that would be correct, despite the time gap. I really don't know why you persist in trying to trip people up by reference to specific words they use. You know what they mean, so why not concentrate on the issues being debated? Accept that sometimes you read things the wrong way, or perhaps not as the author intended. ---------- Post added at 18:34 ---------- Previous post was at 18:29 ---------- Quote:
Focussing on the 'l' word in this way is completely missing the crux of this matter. Live (linear) programmes will be streamed. I presume you are not arguing about that. ---------- Post added at 18:40 ---------- Previous post was at 18:34 ---------- Quote:
Note also that Freeview is changing to allow more on demand services. Good point about internet going down. |
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Freeview has also decided to allow the streaming of channels where they are not available to some people via DTT e.g. Freeview Lite areas.
I think they are doing this to stay relevant as the number of channels broadcast in the traditional way will decrease as time progresses. For most of the channels currently available, it will be a case of streaming them over the internet or losing them. Now that Freeview & Freesat are to merge operations, maybe we will see a combined Freeat/Freeview solution with the ability to stream channels- all on one EPG. This could also be a cost effective way to get the BBC1 & Channel 4 regional variants rolled out in HD. |
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Once it became clear that some of you were interpreting linear in that way, and not to mean scheduled channels, I clarified that live programming would be streamed. Do you seriously believe that I ever intended anyone to think we wouldn't be able to watch live sport, etc anymore? Don't be daft! |
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There’s a joke in there spider which is eluding me...!
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So OB which is it by 2035?
The traditional broadcast systems - terrestrial and satellite (I’ll leave cable to the side to avoid confusion), scheduled channels or all of the above? |
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The use of the word ‘linear’ was meant to refer to our traditional TV channels. It was widely described in this way on the internet at that time. Unfortunately, I didn’t bargain for all the nit-picking that would result from this on the forum. Silly me. Anyway, let’s move on. All of that was five years ago. Time to get over it. It’s much more interesting to talk about various scenarios that may transpire in the coming years. Except for those who cannot bear the thought that all those channel numbers might actually disappear over the next decade or so and don’t want to even try to imagine that. ---------- Post added at 20:43 ---------- Previous post was at 20:42 ---------- Quote:
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No baiting OB. After years of contradictory statements it'd be nice to get the new thread off on the right footing by clearly defining what we mean. To avoid years of confusion.
And on a point of order linear television doesn't require channel numbers in the interface. Just pre-empting the next goal post shift. The Sky Go apps (e.g. on PlayStation) and BT Sport apps can be used to watch linear, scheduled television without numbers. |
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