Re: [LUG] Mythtv and internet connected TVs

[tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/05/13 21:28, Simon Avery wrote:

so how content providers doing wonderful stuff like Game Of Thrones actually generate money! I want HBO to make gzillion £. Are you going to found it, it don't think so...

I love GoT too, but for every one of those, there's a million pieces of crap that I don't watch.

Funding will change drastically with TV Companies already talking about popovers during programming for adverts as well as trailers rather than advert breaks which are decreasingly watched by a human.

Those will be /very/ intrusive, but they gotta make coin somehow.

Sometimes with the BBC (which gives good value imo), I want to do a Good Life's Margo and pay over just enough for the bits I like. "Yes, I'll pay for Radio 4 and Radio 2, but not for any BBC 1 Sitcom or Talent show..."

I'd love to pay for the bits I want - Sky doesn’t let me do that and owns all the content that the BBC doesn’t own that I want.
They also fund the shit channels on freeview by advertising to skew that and make it worse that it should be. They may have to make a coin but they don’t have to be so monopolistic and predatory as they are.
Tom te tom te tom

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