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The End of TV Is Here

You mean the end of OTA broadcasting? Maybe the OTA channels will shut down in the next decade or so (which has been talked about for at least 20 years and hasn't happened yet), but the programming is not going away; the broadcast companies are changing with the times. They have to go where the Sacred Sales Demo audience is.
 
Streaming is the future. Cable TV is dead man walking.
Absolutely!

But it would happen much faster if the streaming suppliers would make it a better experience.

Viewers don't necessarily want to be confronted by a blistering screenful of in-your-face content. They like the simplicity of Cable.

After many years, iHeart finally figured out that people liked the old presets in their cars! So they revamped the app.

Streaming TV needs to do the same, IMO.
 
Absolutely!

But it would happen much faster if the streaming suppliers would make it a better experience.

Viewers don't necessarily want to be confronted by a blistering screenful of in-your-face content. They like the simplicity of Cable.

After many years, iHeart finally figured out that people liked the old presets in their cars! So they revamped the app.

Streaming TV needs to do the same, IMO.
The older generation might want simple, the younger crowd want everything at their fingertips.
 
But it would happen much faster if the streaming suppliers would make it a better experience.

Viewers don't necessarily want to be confronted by a blistering screenful of in-your-face content. They like the simplicity of Cable.

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My face remains unblistered. And I can find stuff a whole lot quicker on streaming than I can on the cable menu.
 
The older generation might want simple, the younger crowd want everything at their fingertips.

So why did iHeart go the other way? They're heavily promoting the old radio presets.

Not saying that streaming TV should do a 180, just also offer a simpler interface.
 
And anything I watch on any streaming platform by default appears when I open the platform. I don't even have to save.
I've known people who purchased DVDs of movies and TV shows. The idea was they can watch them anytime they want. They end up covered in cobwebs on a shelf.

With DISH, you can DVR shows if you wish. If I am just flipping through the channels, inevitably I will find The Godfather and start watching for the umpteenth time. I guess I am Old School...
 
And anything I watch on any streaming platform by default appears when I open the platform. I don't even have to save.
On my Samsung, I don’t even have to open a streaming service. i just select the streaming service I have from an icon list, and shows from that service that I’ve watched show up in preview boxes right above the streaming service icon.
 
Earlier it was mentioned about the end of OTA broadcasting. If anything the ATSC 3.0 mess is looking like, it'll be like the ONTV days of the early 80s. Signals being sent with DRM encryption that no converter box much less TV set with a 'NextGen TV' tuner in it can't de-encrypt for what?----charging for diginet subchannels or the primetime network programming only? 'They' seem hellbent on complicating matters all in the name of targeted advertising--*cough*---infringement.
 
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