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Cord-cutting and Other Cable Competition

Good read. I think it's more likely that HBO and the cable providers will adapt than just let Netflix walk in and take their business.

I still think there's a strong market for live content. News and sports will largely be immune from some of the move to on-demand streaming.
I also think it's very hard to break people of the easy habit of flipping channels. Going to Netflix or other streaming services on a separate box is a more involved process no matter how you try to simplify it.
 
tested said:
Going to Netflix or other streaming services on a separate box is a more involved process no matter how you try to simplify it.
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On my Vizio HDTV going to Hulu, Netflix and half a dozen other streamers requires only the push of one button (after the wifi is set up to my router but that is done only one time). Then you just log on (as you would do through a browser) and you're good to go.

I could do the same thing through my Blu-Ray player but the TV is better at wifi than the player.

When I first set up the HDTV I took advantage of Netflix free trial. It worked fine but I didn't find many movies or programs I was interested in seeing so I let it expire.

It would be nice if one standard could be implemented so watching TV could be returned to the simple days of analog no matter where the programs originated. Probably won't happen in my lifetime but someday......
 
Of course, the fly in the ointment right now is having Warner Bros, MGM and Universal pull 2000 films from Netflix's library. Not sure what their game plan is, whether to extract more licensing fees from Netflix or set up their own competing service but it's safe to say that consumers are not interested in signing up with multiple content providers.

http://abovethelaw.com/2013/05/warn...-to-further-fragment-the-online-movie-market/

Here are the hard facts on the decline of cable subscribers:

http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/11/p...ory-study-says-cable-watching-peaked-in-2012/
 
Carmine5 said:
whether to extract more licensing fees from Netflix or set up their own competing service but it's safe to say that consumers are not interested in signing up with multiple content providers.
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I don't know about that. Seems like all of the "cord-cutters" I know subscribe to Netflix and at least one other service.

I'm skeptical of your link about cable subscriptions having already peaked, because the largest pay-TV companies combined (Dish, Direct, AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner) gained about 1.02 million subscribers in 2012. Its possible that including some of the smaller companies would have made that a loss, but I'd doubt it. (Source: original research at http://radiodiscussions.com/smf/index.php?topic=228651.0)
 
Carmine5 said:
Of course, the fly in the ointment right now is having Warner Bros, MGM and Universal pull 2000 films from Netflix's library.
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I had read on another source (which I cannot find at the moment) that Netflix had intentionally churned its libraries both to refresh its offerings and also to promote its streaming service. My chief complaint with Netflix when last I looked (about six months ago) was the stale movie offerings. I already have a library of my personal "oldies" and I don't need to subscribe to Netflix for the ones I don't watch.
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landtuna said:
Carmine5 said:
Of course, the fly in the ointment right now is having Warner Bros, MGM and Universal pull 2000 films from Netflix's library.
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I had read on another source (which I cannot find at the moment) that Netflix had intentionally churned its libraries both to refresh its offerings and also to promote its streaming service. My chief complaint with Netflix when last I looked (about six months ago) was the stale movie offerings. I already have a library of my personal "oldies" and I don't need to subscribe to Netflix for the ones I don't watch.
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Yeah - I'm a bit disappointed in the NetFlix streaming library, as well. I was able to find a couple of films, and a few comedy specials to watch, but I'm keeping their DVD by mail service for the forseeable future.

As to "cutting the cord" using Apple TV and/or Roku - I don't think it's ready for prime-time yet. I have one friend who does most ot their TV watching with Apple TV, but she's quite wealthy, and can afford to pay iTunes to watch a lot of new and recent RV and film content. I'm sure her monthly iTunes bill is way higher than my cable bill.
 
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