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Old 24-09-2015, 16:39   #417
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Re: The future for linear TV channels
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Originally Posted by muppetman11 View Post
Please explain to me how I'm going to be better off in your world ?

As it stands now I can use the EPG or search On Demand and find whatever I want to watch easily, in your world of individual On Demand players things seem rather more long winded not to mention potentially more costly.
The linear channels are safe in the short to medium term, but the crunch will almost certainly come eventually.

You describe it as 'my world' and I admit that I am comfortable with it as I no longer watch broadcast TV live, but I am not wishing this on everyone. I'm simply stating what I believe is the way we are going.

In terms of your question, I have to say that it would take me ages to select a programme I would want to watch at a specific time from my EPG and I can find stuff from Netflix pretty quickly.

A set top box designed to carry different streaming services would have advanced search facilities that would assist you in finding the types of programme you were looking for. It would also keep track on where you were in any given series (as Netflix and Amazon do very efficiently already).
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