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Originally Posted by muppetman11
How on earth have you come to that conclusion ?
Argos are selling Now TV boxes , Apple TV , Chromecast to name just a few.
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If you look further, quite a few come up (permanently?) as 'out of stock' or are otherwise unobtainable. Apart from the heavily promoted Now TV the only one consistently available at Argos is the later Amazon Fire stick.
Last time I visited my local Curry's store, the remaining Roku boxes were on 'clearance', Amazon Fire Sticks and Chromecasts were in the 'Sale' bin (although not at a noticeably reduced price).
Chromecast devices are anyway slightly different and rely on casting from other devices, which of course have their own restrictions on what you can do with content, as we all know with TV Anywhere.
It would be a great pity if the UK 'content middlemen' were to reassert their dominance in the emerging IPTV market just as their previous dominance of the linear market diminishes.