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By speed and therefore by convenience. There are other reasons - less mental effort involved and it can be good to broaden your horizons and see something you wouldn't normally see.

You have to acknowledge that not everyone is the same. How do you search for films? By actor? By genre? By year of release? By franchise? By rating? By popularity? Content providers know people locate content differently and cater for these differences.

Back to TV. Rather than searching for content, some people are more than happy to whizz through their favourite channels until they see something they like. And the more housebound in the population may keep a linear channel on for company most of the day.

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and, of course, programs that you wouldn't necessarily search for but you spot and they turn out to be a real gem.

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Signed up to Starzplay on my V6 at 7.30pm and you’re still “processing” my order at 9.30! Whole evening wasted. Not exactly “On Demand” is it??

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Both absolutely bang on , I've dropped on many a good programme by trawling the guide.

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Why are you obsessed with repeatedly asking this same question? Seriously, you’ve been at it for years now. You know the answer you’re going to get. You know your personal preferences differ from some other forum users. Just get over it and move on.

Jings you really must be bored. Is there nothing on TV?

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I think unfortunately the crux of this is OB sees streaming as more than it really is. It’s not, for example, like a mobile phone - that will revolutionise where, when and how people interact compared to a landline.

Neither is it a step change in technology - like moving from 56k modems to 256k or 512k broadband.

It’s just television delivered by another means. The lower monthly cost of individual services has to some degree extended the availability of pay-tv. However these services aren’t mutually exclusive and individuals don’t see it as this completely binary battle between “linear” television (which OB struggles to define exactly what that is) and streaming.

I can equally enjoy content via the EPG, Catch up/on demand menus, via an app on a STB or on a mobile device with existing services from “streamers” and from Sky/Virgin.

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I avoided answering another stupid question about linear TV simply because it has been answered many times and you are just baiting me again and again. The question has not been evaded, it has been answered already, as you well know.

I really don’t think you are genuinely puzzled by what I have been saying at all. Streaming and video on demand will replace our scheduled TV channels. It’s very simple. Your ‘linear’ arguments are quite irrelevant to these persistent feigned misunderstandings and confusion.

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Whizzing through channels attempting to find something to watch is the most inefficient means of landing on a programme you actually want to see.

We’ve all done channel hopping and trawling through EPGs. It is frustrating and unrewarding. It would not be rocket science for the streamers to be able to put in place a randomised category if that’s what you really wanted!

Categorisation is very simple. First, you have choices such as films, TV shows, documentaries, news. You can then break that down into sub categories if you want a more focussed search, such as romantic films, thriller films, etc, and then further sub-categories if you wanted that. Additionally, of course, you could just do a normal title search.

So your quest for content could be as general or as focussed as you wanted.

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