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Originally Posted by jfman
Wholesaling while also retailing “direct to customer” eats into your potential revenue. Remembering that it’s all just television and streaming isn’t magically exempt from the economics of that market BT Sport is in Virgin Maxit as was ESPN before that and Setanta before it.
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Not if it adds new customers, it doesn't. Anyway, I was talking about discounting, not wholesaling.
Streamers like Apple TV, Discovery+, Britbox and Acorn would benefit from discounting. Netflix and Prime not so much as they both have a large existing customer base. The latter two might benefit more from discounted first years for Virgin customers who were not already subscribers.
No-one here is arguing that simple economics do not apply to any party. That's a product of your own imagination.
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Originally Posted by jfman
It’s difficult to not personalise it when you are the single, solitary person with such a dogmatic view that only streaming television can survive while linear channels - despite still being a popular method of both distributing and consuming television - must disappear.
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I know for a fact that you are not correct when you say this.
What is correct is that some very aggressive linear channel fanatics are trying to beat people who suggest such things into submission.
I will not succomb to this kind of bullying. I am very happy to answer questions on the views you and others express, but it seems to me that you are not interested and you are not listening, which begs the question of why you continue to post on this subject.
I have been saying for 6 years now that by 2035, I believe that our scheduled channels as currently presented will no longer exist. I have said that the change would be gradual at first but after a few years, scheduled channels as we know them now would start to close. This is already happening.
In the last year, the following channels have closed:
Home & Health
Discovery Shed
Travel Channel
VH1
3 MTV channels
Lifetime
All 3 children's Disney channels
Sky Cinema Disney
....to mention those that come to mind.
The most significant of these are Disney's channels, because the content remains available, but only on the streamer.
To you and others arguing that the prediction I have made is not a viable proposition, this should be sounding alarm bells, but it isn't. You continually preach the same message despite your arguments disintegrating before you.
I might as well just sit back now and let you eventually come to terms with the fact that you were wrong.
I note that you claim that if only one channel survives, you will have been proved right. Well, that shows how confident you are!