now I am reopening this thread.
With current situations, Jio offering backup plans (airtel copying them shamelessly), bundling OTT and Live TV with FTTH, Airtel offering DTH along with fiber, BSNL Launching IPTV, and regional players having their own setups, do you think linear TV (cable or DTH) will still survive in 5 years? It is high time, IPTV is relaunched and the tariffs are revised. One Home, One Wire, Triple Play is the future. We are soo late but we are doing it, I think.
We should have a carrier-neutral IPTV. Triple play should be made a norm.
Jio has somehow mastered it, by integrating their OTT apps, and launching a seperate UI for the same.
We have so many OTT apps all from the major and now many minor TV networks, all of them showcasing whatever LIVE TV they have under their belt.
Everybody is launching OTTs. Everybody wants to be a player.
But why is still this age old tech being used?
Cable TVs were killed by DTH.
Now DTH will be killed by Triple Play and FTTH.
FTTH will stay for atleast 2 or 3 decades.
Maybe, 5G will kill FTTH? Who knows
The future is now.