A couple of years ago, when IMP (“what later turned out to be the BBC iPlayer”) was still in closed previews, and I started building my over-complicated watch-PC-on-TV setup, I formed the opinion that the future of TV was not “Digital”, it was “Internet-based”. An article in Saturday’s Grauniad suggests that things are still heading in that direction, and reminded me of my prediction that the “channel” as we know it will not be with us much longer.
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I’m a bit of an annual cycling fan – that is, I get really into the Tour de France every summer, and barely follow the sport at all the rest of the year. It’s a bit like only watching Tennis when Wimbledon’s on, or football when it’s the World Cup. Which, come to think of it, I do a bit too – but not as regularly.
Now, part of this is because the Tour de France is the only professional cycling race that’s generally covered on “mainstream” TV – I’ve never had the “luxury” of Eurosport. A few years ago, even that was in doubt, with Channel 4 suddenly dumping the rights, and ITV rather half-heartedly taking them over. Which brings me to this year’s “good news, bad news” story.