BBC:
Video streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime now have more subscribers than traditional pay TV services in the UK, new data from Ofcom has revealed.
The media regulator says British TV will have to change the way it operates if it wants to compete with the internet giants.
Sharon White, Ofcom's chief executive, says: "We'd love to see broadcasters such as the BBC work collaboratively with ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 so that they have got that scale to compete globally, making shows together, co-producing great shows that all of us can watch.
"I think it would be great to see a British Netflix."
BrexitFlix?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @08:37AM (4 children)
Well, they refer to something that is at the same time traditional TV (as opposed to internet streaming) and pay TV (as opposed to free-to-air TV). What expression would you use for that?
Also, TV as such is only a couple of decades old (I'm pretty sure there was no TV 100 years ago), so “traditional” is to be seen relative to that time span.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @08:57AM (3 children)
What does that even mean? If you're pretty sure, the historical facts [wikipedia.org] don't matter?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @09:19AM (2 children)
From that very page:
I'm absolutely sure that 1926 is later than 1918.
That people experimented with image transmission before does not mean that TV existed back then. Even though they had experimental devices that did part of what TV does.
It's like claiming that we already have fusion power because there exist several fusion research facilities around the world. Oh, and we already had successful tests of large-scale fusion power generation in the form of thermonuclear bombs …
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @09:31AM (1 child)
92 years is 100 years in common parlance. Mere decades (your claim) would be twenty to thirty years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:33PM
goalpost moving is fun weeeeee