BoxRec

jamesmcdonnell wrote:

G0mez wrote:The platform / technology as we know it, is dying out.

In approximately 3-4 years from now Sky will unlikely be a one-stop shop for all your TV needs because everything is going online or via Smart televisions.

Their channel bundles shall be available as a content-provider, but HBO series you shall be buying direct via a HBO app on your TV.

The amount of late teens / early 20's people with a Netflix online account compared to a Sky box & subscription is light years apart.

Sky know this, hence they're pushing their Now TV channel and the £9.99 box that converts it to HDMI for current generation smart televisions.

All the top investment experts like The Motley Fool and even people like Warren Buffet are plunging billions into web TV companies like Amazon's TV venture and content providers like Discovery etc.

It's also the reason why Google has quietly bought thousands of miles of dark fibre (ultra fast cabling that's not been activated yet) across dozens of states in America.

Sky will possibly be like the old British Telecom landlines soon, when Orange, Vodaphone , Nokia and Motorola emerged from nowhere and left them for dust.

The good news is that Sky-produced shows will hopefully still continue. But American series etc that are bought-in might not be exclusive any more soon.

Things are changing fast , just wait and see.

Content will be, as ever, be king. As you say, WEBTV is the way forward - we provide training to telecoms engineers, and we are doing big business training people on IP video streaming for web based applications.

Eventually, people are going to just pay for the content they want, be that an individual channel, series, event etc.

Once the content providers are able to go direct to the consumers direct, without intermediaries like sky - the prices will fall - eventually the technology will be so widespread, that boxing promoters can just pay a fee to a company to film the content, and distribute it via the web via a turnkey solution - the technology is already there, it's just about it becoming simple enough for it to be acquired without having to have prior knowledge.

The likes of Cisco and Ericsson are now big into the business end of Video on demand, and where they go, others will follow. Sky are already trying to get in on the act with their new mobile TV offering, SkyGo, which doesn't require a sky subscription, as they realise the days are numbered when they will be able to collect whopping subscription fees from their punters in order to get just the few things they actually want to watch.

PPV boxing may well get cheaper as there won't be so many grubby mitts getting their slice, but it's not going anywhere, as how else are boxers going to get the multi million pound paydays they want?