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The other four (for those who don't wish to read the whole article) are:

  1. The number of U.S. pay TV bundle subscribers will fall dramatically.

  2. Video streaming will grow to become the primary form of movie and TV consumption.

  3. Professional football viewership could be in structural decline.

  4. Autonomous vehicles may provide an extra hour a day for media consumption.

1 posted on 08/31/2021 7:04:48 AM PDT by Vigilanteman
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To: Vigilanteman

And, as always, pornographers will be arrayed along the leading edge.


2 posted on 08/31/2021 7:07:01 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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I have the impression that with video streaming, You Tube channels, etc. that technology is bypassing traditional TV broadcasting. It’s bypassing cable and satellite TV. We have heard for years now about people cutting the cord for cable TV. Technology advances and is changing things.

Someone told me that even as movie theaters have reopened after covid, that many movies are being video streamed at the same time they are in theaters. Movie theaters as we know them may well be bypassed by the technology as well.


3 posted on 08/31/2021 7:11:03 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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The issue is local channels. Many people like myself still want local news and w/o a good over the air signal the only way to get local is a cable bundle. at least currently. Once that occurs, cable bundles will be history and it will be full ala carte streaming.


5 posted on 08/31/2021 7:14:21 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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Interesting but this is just a modes of transmission issue. I have basically come to reject outright most of the content that is being sent. I used to watch way too much tv and movies and I suppose concerts, sports and stuff and now it is next to nothing. It has been in decline since I joined FR 20 years ago. It’s a different world now.


13 posted on 08/31/2021 9:53:29 AM PDT by xp38
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#1 is for sure correct. I think the other four are also right.


14 posted on 08/31/2021 12:22:01 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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