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Old 18-12-2016, 02:41   #3166
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Maybe the majority of households of the older generation, Den. But I am seeing at first hand the very different ways of doing things and the expectations of those younger than me and I think many will be surprised at the sheer speed of the changes that will affect us in the coming years.
I understand where you are coming from.

I was born in 1979. Since then I've seen the birth of satellite TV, mobile phones, home computing and the internet. Some of the biggest phenomenons on the internet like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are less than 12 years old.

I grew up in a time when you had to watch TV as it went out, only 3 channels, but if you where lucky you had VHS and could record your shows to watch at a later time if you fancied. Watching a movie on demand went a 30 minute walk to your local video rental store.

There's a whole generation of kids, who are 10 and under, who have grown up with modern technology from birth and are able to access information, music and video within seconds. Anything they want at a touch of a button.... usually free or for a small fee. It's this generation, the pay TV customers of tomorrow, who are going to shape how content is consumed. Older people are more likely to want to stick with what they know, and may be resitant to change.

You can't fight it. The YouTube / Facebook generation are coming and will be the new target audience for SKY and Virgin Media within the next 10 years.

TV as we know it won't last forever. In 1989, when I was 10, if someone told me I could access 1000 movies with a new premier everyday (NOW TV Movies pass) for less than £10.00 per month and I could watch whatever I wanted when I wanted I simply wouldn't have believed it. Times change, technology evolves and so do expectations.

I reckon before I'm 50 almost everything from TV, movies and sport will be available to me at a reasonable price without the need of dedciated TV subscription. I'm not saying lineal TV will be dead, I think it will be less relevant.
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Old 18-12-2016, 11:22   #3167
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Did you also think a remote control on a wire was groundbreaking.
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Old 18-12-2016, 12:19   #3168
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Did you also think a remote control on a wire was groundbreaking.
We certainly did!
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Old 18-12-2016, 12:22   #3169
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Did you also think a remote control on a wire was groundbreaking.
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Old 18-12-2016, 12:26   #3170
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I wonder whether we'll ever get On Demand move in a similar way to music streaming.

Having access to all shows for a flat monthly fee , piracy was what made the music industry have a rethink. £9.99 a month allows you to stream as much music as you want with many services having north of 40 million tracks.
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Old 18-12-2016, 12:40   #3171
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I wonder whether we'll ever get On Demand move in a similar way to music streaming.

Having access to all shows for a flat monthly fee , piracy was what made the music industry have a rethink. £9.99 a month allows you to stream as much music as you want with many services having north of 40 million tracks.
The worrying thing is that we have all these different streaming services, each with their own subscription fees or PPV (as well as services with unskippable ads) and although we may well end up with more choice than we have now, it's going to get rather expensive unless we find a way of permitting archived material from being accessed from a central database..

From the consumer's point of view it would be good if we could just access all programmes over 5 years' old via the cloud either on subscription or PPV.
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I'm sure we will get a Spotify style system at some point but it won't be until doing it that way is worth more money than the current models, i think we're still a long way away from that. With the current TV model even older shows are generating huge amounts of money, Friends still generates $1b every year from Syndication (the actors still get paid $20m a year each from that lol), Seinfeld $3.5billion since 1995 etc.
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I find the more choice I have the less interest I have. Probably I just take it for granted now.
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Old 19-12-2016, 00:51   #3174
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This could be interesting new service launching, not much info at mo not sure if it's a all in one service kr nust a show tracker at the moment https://uk.tviso.com/
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Old 19-12-2016, 08:53   #3175
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This could be interesting new service launching, not much info at mo not sure if it's a all in one service kr nust a show tracker at the moment https://uk.tviso.com/
Tviso is a Spanish company. It's offering looks more like a search engine/price comparison site to me.

http://www.finsmes.com/2016/11/tviso...n-funding.html
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Tviso is a Spanish company. It's offering looks more like a search engine/price comparison site to me.

http://www.finsmes.com/2016/11/tviso...n-funding.html
Yeah it looks similar to Roku's search and its My Feed features. It's the sort of feature that people with multiple subscriptions will find very useful.

I wonder if Tviso has managed to get buy in from the main streaming services as presumably they need to provide the information to power Tviso. Hopefully Tviso isn't the only player in this market as it will push the technology on a bit.
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There is a site already that does the same thing. You type in a series or film and it tells you which streaming service it's available on, can't remember the name though?

That's if it's the same sort of thing.
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There is a site already that does the same thing. You type in a series or film and it tells you which streaming service it's available on, can't remember the name though?

That's if it's the same sort of thing.
https://www.justwatch.com/uk/tv-series
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Good link, thank you, mogodon.
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Thanks, looks like a great service. I'll be making extensive use of this now I've pretty much ditched VM tv. The Android app is pretty good too.
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