Cat and mouse. In 10 years time we will be on to a new standard, maybe a new medium of broadcasting and receiving, and we still won't have the infrastructure to deal with it.
Maybe DVB-S3 there is a Novelsat NS3 demodulation which they say is really efficient and is already used for feeds.
PVR's killed the DVD recorder, catch-up tv has to some extent reduced the demand for PVR receivers. Despite that, I still use my hard drive on my PC as a PVR which I then transfer Freeview recordings to my tablet.
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On demand requires a strong, reliable high speed broadband connection, especially for higher quality content going forward like 4K / UHD stuff.
No it doesn't. For streaming Netflix style, maybe so if you really want to watch in UHD where nothing sort of fibre will have the bandwidth. For the likes of Sky+, nothing streams, it downloads to your box and plays it from there. The ads suggest a minimum of 2Mbps but the faster your internet the sooner your download becomes "available" in the Planner, the point where you can play it all the way through without interruption.
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There is still a place for OTA linear TV in the wider world, even if there isn't in your little closeted bubble.
There will be a place for linear TV for the foreseeable future. There's just far more ways these days to see what you want to see. In the 1980s if you missed something and you didn't tape it, you'd do one of the following: go without, ask somebody else if they taped it and borrow their tape, or pour over the TV listings every week hoping for a repeat and then try to catch/record that. These days if you miss a show just get it off on demand at a picture quality level far higher than anything you'd get from a Scotch cassette.
Sky Q not having the dedicated Box Office channels (save for Sports) was also a piece of the puzzle with regards to their planned closure. The Box Office button on the Sky+HD boxes is ever so redundant with the exception of events such as boxing fights and WWE matches.
Sky Q not having the dedicated Box Office channels (save for Sports) was also a piece of the puzzle with regards to their planned closure. The Box Office button on the Sky+HD boxes is ever so redundant with the exception of events such as boxing fights and WWE matches.
Like Text, the Box Office button is redundant. It automatically gives you the option of Sky Store, when you select Box Office the synopsis advises you to use Sky Store, and it's been like that for some time now.
PVR's killed the DVD recorder, catch-up tv has to some extent reduced the demand for PVR receivers. Despite that, I still use my hard drive on my PC as a PVR which I then transfer Freeview recordings to my tablet.
I don't agree with that the statement that PVRs killed the DVD recorder.
DVD recorders are still very much alive. People still want DVD players, and you can now get DVD recorders which are also PVRs with catch-up tv.
A lot of people would probably rather have a single DVD recorder which is also a PVR, than have a separate DVD player and PVR.
PVR's killed the DVD recorder, catch-up tv has to some extent reduced the demand for PVR receivers. Despite that, I still use my hard drive on my PC as a PVR which I then transfer Freeview recordings to my tablet.
I don't agree with that the statement that PVRs killed the DVD recorder.
DVD recorders are still very much alive. People still want DVD players, and you can now get DVD recorders which are also PVRs with catch-up tv.
A lot of people would probably rather have a single DVD recorder which is also a PVR, than have a separate DVD player and PVR.
Using a DVD recorder for time shifting was just a PITA, and it was difficult to predict how much space was available if you used a disc for more than one recording. Handy though to make a recording to keep, or make a recording of a PVR recording to give to a friend who'd missed a programme. Later I used to ftp transfer files from/to my Humax Freesat PVR with a friend who had the same machine. Worked OK for SD, but not HD, files are encrypted and locked to the machine.
That phase has passed anyway now, as pointed out up thread, it's all there 'in the cloud' (until the next big solar flare !)
Cat and mouse. In 10 years time we will be on to a new standard, maybe a new medium of broadcasting and receiving, and we still won't have the infrastructure to deal with it.
Maybe DVB-S3 there is a Novelsat NS3 demodulation which they say is really efficient and is already used for feeds.
Likely be DVB-S2X, TV's are coming with tuners for it already.
Not a fan of watching programmes from on demand to be honest, much prefer having a PVR. iPlayer is lovely but ITV/C4/C5 leave a lot to be desired, I don't think ITV's even supports HD. And I can't be bothered sitting through the adverts before the programme has even begun. I think ultimately I prefer having a recording from broadcast rather than a clean copy from the cloud if only because sometimes stuff can later get edited out of repeats and iPlayer (such as the Rowan Atkinson sketch from Comic Relief)
I don't agree with that the statement that PVRs killed the DVD recorder.
Sky obviously agree with you, otherwise they wouldn't have launched their 'Buy & Keep' service on their platform, which sends you the DVD/BluRay through the post.
