The Future of TV - Linear vs. Streaming and beyond

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It’s a fairly common trope in post apocalyptic movies to randomly add some sort of antenna to the top of buildings or vehicles that would have no chance of working; or to tune into a radio on some absurd frequency.

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Well i’m already watching all my TV via internet streaming. Even FTA. Cause my externat antenna has been useless since it got bent in a storm a number of years ago and for some weird reason internal ones don’t work in my house

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and will be deleted off tvs just as quick

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If they allow you to do that. lol

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If they dont they will have alot of pissed off people. Lol

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I think it depends more on the TV. I’m not sure what other brands are like with it but I know Samsung was a pain for this a few years ago. They may not be as bad now but the last time I used the apps on my Samsung Tv there were a lot you couldn’t delete. I’m pretty sure the FTA catch up apps were apart of these.

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The only apps you can’t delete sre Samsung ones like Samsung Smart Things.

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Seems like the UK will be moving to turn off tv signals sometime in the 2030s.

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do you have another source thats not a tabloid

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BBC: How can traditional British television survive the US streamers

The Times: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/media/article/bbc-plans-streaming-stick-to-aid-online-switchover-wb77bj6l0

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thanks

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2050 is one thing. 2030 is quite another. Baffling how the UK FTA channels seem to be pushing to speed up their extinction when actually viewers are reluctant to see Freeview dropped in favour of the Freely streaming equivalent.

Sadly they dropped the ball with Freeview - technically it could quite easily be in a position now where most the offshoot channels are in HD and all muxes DVB-T2 with one probably turned off thanks to the removal of SD simulcasts but due to mismanagement we now have less HD channels than a decade ago and poor quality archive and shopping channels are still launching.

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The future needs to be Tivimate enabled. All the channels using a M3U feed.

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Bit of a shock today - I have friends who are similar age to me (all younguns as you older people say :stuck_out_tongue: ) and when the conversation came around to TV, I was suprised to be met with “What’s Free-To-Air” and “How does it work if there’s no internet?”. Other friends know what it is but “won’t touch it with ten foot pole”

Took me by suprise hearing people in the newer generations don’t know about the magic of free-to-air or don’t find it. Free-to-air might wither and die sooner rather than later

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