I am pretty sure we are not becoming a VoD world. Linear programming
is much better for advertisers. I do not think content providers, nor
consumers, would prefer a VoD only service. A handful of consumers
would love it, but many would not.
There are already cheap and efficient ways of doing VoD-like services
with a PVR - I timeshift almost everything that I want to watch
because it's on at inconvenient times. So shows get spooled to disk
whilst they're broadcasted efficiently, and I can watch them later.
Any sort of Broadcast-Video-over-IP system that employed that
technology would be a winner. You don't need to 'broadcast' the show
in real time either if it's going to be spooled to disk, even as it is
viewed.
This system works perfectly in our linear-line distribution (channels).
As user you can choose time you want to see the show, but not the show
itself. Capacity on PVR device is finite and if you don't want to waste
the space with any broadcasted content you have to program the device. I
have ten channels in my cable TV and sometimes I'm confused what to
record. Beeing in the US and paid for ~100 channels will make me mad to
crawl channel schedules :-)
So the technology is nice, but not a "What you want is what you get". So
you cannot address the long tail using this technology.
Regards
Michal
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