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Everyone knows how streaming works mate.
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Evidently not, since it keeps being said that you have to go looking for it. Only in the sense that you have to look for TV Channels. If you use legitimate streaming methods, then you don't have to go looking for it in some odd little corner of the internet.
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But it is a big stretch to try and convince the older generation to pay to watch things on a device other than tv.
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We're not talking about the older generation. The older generation are already watching. They were engaged in the sports years ago, and continue to be, whether it through legitimate streams, dodgy streams, or TV. Motorsports problem has never been the core audience, but rather trying to gain new fans.
I have 2 kids, one a teenager and one younger. Neither watch TV. Both streaming only. They cannot even stumble over F1 because F1 refuses to engage in streaming, thus missing out on the younger market. But they have stumbled over other motorsports through YouTubes suggestions. They've also found their own tastes of games and music through this. Whether the older generation want to admit it or not - streaming IS the way forward and it IS how younger generations are connecting with media and sports now.
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But for some, paying someone to host a website seems expensive when we are conditioned to paying for SKY or BBC services which seem to offer more but in reality don't.
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You said it yourself, it's just conditioning. We'll pay £800 a year for Sky and all the other various channels that go with it. But we won't pay £500 for the same things to be delivered to our screens at home, but without all the extra fluff that Sky adds to justify the price? Streaming might seem expensive, but the figures don't lie- it really isn't. The one thing that could change those figures round and make TV a better deal is you watch a LOT of sport, such as football, tennis, cricket etc.
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This original topic was on MotorsTV, and I was thinking about this last night. MotorsTV has now been purchased. Why is this a bad thing? MotorsTV was struggling, we all know that. For years (maybe even decades now), the image and sound quality has been poor, the program quality has been poor and generally the channel was always in a poor state. But we accepted it and loved it for what it was because we're motorsport fans, and so are they and they were just trying to bring us motorsport.
Now it's been purchased, and I think it's important to look at who is doing it. Zak Brown is going to end up leading McLaren, he runs United Autosports, raced in lots of series for decades and obviously owns Autosport magazine. How can we NOT say this guy is a motorsport fan? Isn't this what we want? People who are actual fans of the sport, but with money, to buy and operate the things we want, to a higher standard? He's going to take MotorsTV from an obscure channel on Sky, to a proper stand alone site that'll engage with new generations...and we're complaining?
And not only that, the people who are complaining openly admit they use dodgy streams anyway. So it doesn't matter if it's on Sky, Virgin, the internet, or owned by Zak Brown, Donald Trump or that bloke down the road with the funny nose - the people using dodgy streams will continue to use dodgy streams and see no real difference.