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Re: Could Virgin Eliminate Live TV?
I think the-cable-guy is just having trouble articulating his view.
Whilst it would be technically and commercially viable to go all VOD at some point many people just like to sit down and watch with little idea what is actually going to be on and this is indeed how many shows pick up popularity.
A similar although not identical parallel to this is music radio, we could all listen to most of the content via other means but we still listen to radio because the mix has been chosen for us and there is always the possibility that we will stumble across something we didnt know about before.
Whilst this could still be done through VOD via either manually browsing the programs or some random select feature most people are lazy and would prefer it to be just there in front of them.
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I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is. Terry Pratchett
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