>It’s officially Netflix vs. traditional TV — and Netflix is about to take the lead.
>A new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers highlights the decline of traditional cable television, along with the increasing rise of streaming; of the 2,000 people surveyed by PWC, 73 percent said they pay for traditional pay TV — a 3 percent drop from 2016 — which matches the percentage of respondents who said they subscribe to Netflix. (That sound you heard was Netflix CEO Reed Hastings cackling on his way to the ATM machine.)
>Netflix added another 850,000 domestic subscribers during its last quarter, and saw its total U.S. customer base swell to more than 50 million in 2017. Coupled with its international subs, the home of “Stranger Things” and “The Crown,” among other original shows, has about 110 million accounts across the globe.
>And streaming isn’t just for cool young people, either. The PWC report called it a “streaming explosion for all ages,” with 63 percent of respondents between 50-59 saying they access TV on the internet — a 15 percent jump from 2016. On the other end of the spectrum, 87 percent of respondents 18-24, and 90 percent between 25-34 said they stream their shows.
>PWC’s survey indicated cord-cutting and cord-trimming continue to gain traction, with a combined 46 percent of respondents shedding pay TV accounts in 2017.
Good cable should have been dead a while ago. It's just too bad they transitioned to ISP's before this.
Zachary Gonzalez
SHUT IT DOWN
Nathaniel Ross
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Grayson Flores
>still losing money This is why TV will always be superior.
Logan Wood
the fuck is wrong with people. it’s not just anonymous creeps on the internet. jesus christ
Jayden Foster
>can't watch shows whenever and wherever you want >you have to abide by a timed schedule
Nah.
Gabriel Green
To be fair Millie is sexy.
Thomas Bennett
Is Stranger Things good?
Benjamin Carter
>what is show recording Poor pleb confirmed.
Logan Anderson
kys for sexualization of a child
Connor Barnes
when is Star Wars The Last Jedi coming to Netflix?
Daniel Adams
Got the shitpost for this webm?
Hunter Davis
ST draws heavily from 80s pop culture namely the Goonies, ET and Stephen King's IT. If you like that stuff you'll like ST. I really enjoyed S1 but S2 was a little disappointing.
Lucas Thompson
Is it violent or more lighthearted?
Zachary Garcia
cable can be like 20-100 bucks a month for TV shit alone, Netflix should honestly have a lot more given how cheap it is
Brandon Sanders
It's not a gorefest but it does get violent on some episodes.
Brayden Stewart
when they add blurays to buy of there series I will care, since its streamed if my internet goes down for even a second it becomes a blurry mess
John Thompson
Christ people, you ever heard of torrents?
By the way I would recommend Dark over ST any day. At least they get 80s fashion right
Isaiah Bell
Thats a good point. Netflix has been subsidized through net neutrality which is why they can keep their customer fee so low and attract a lot of people. Netflix was founded by a grandson to Edward Bernays who revolutionized the use of propaganda and media manipulation in a mass consumer society. Edward Bernays is the reason why women started smoking cigarettes because he connected it to feminism and female empowerment. Netflix is the government's response to the death of television as a tool to control the mind of the consumers.
Aaron Bell
Just how many layers of tinfoil do you have on your head?
Brayden Nelson
fuck yea. biggest complaint is that S2 lacks some of the focus S1 had
Matthew Cox
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Joseph Allen
you have to go back
Jack Gonzalez
>when brainlets start using the brainlet meme
Jonathan Russell
>Netflix was founded by a grandson to Edward Bernays >Relatives: Sigmund Freud
>Netflix expanding rapidly >traditionally dominant tv networks having an impossible time holding on to ratings and viewership >quality networks like HBO, Showtime, and the streaming services are putting out quality shows alongside up and comers like FX and AMC Services may rise and fall, but streaming is the future. Nobody wants satellite TV in the era of 4K streaming and the upcoming Gig internet/5G expansions. You might as well argue for the telegraph because there aren't enough phone lines yet.
Parker Hall
So...sifting to the actual points instead of genealogy and political theories...if Netflix is what you claim, a wicked entity thrusting propaganda into the eyes of its viewers, wouldn't a new streaming service be able to avoid this corruption? And you do realize Netflix started out in the late 90's as a DVD delivery service, right? They didn't overtake blockbuster until the rise of streaming. Got any hot takes on Blockbuster? Hulu? Amazon?
Cooper Scott
OC
John Phillips
For me, it's The Crown.
Jose Jones
>brainlets claiming that they used the brainlet meme first
Yep. Blockbuster tried to buy them out at one point. Its the most unlikely success story, considering its business model at the start.
David Harris
wow. i really only started hearing about netflix around 2007-2008 but that might just be because i was born in 99
Luke Roberts
They are the new gate keepers just like the old media and the state church before that. Amazon is expanding as well they got the rights for Lord of the rings and will create a new series and use it for propaganda purposes mainly to sell political identity to viewers.
Julian Hernandez
I think you're seeing nefarious plotting where there is none. Amazon and Netflix are paving new frontiers of market research. Everything they produce is produced in response to a demand for that type of show with that type of character in that type of setting. They aren't propaganda outlets, they're megaphones echoing the public sentiment for money. The changing landscape will change them with it. That's the nature of private companies. The new Amazon LOTR series is scary as shit because the trendy, popular casting right now that rakes in the money and garners praise is diversity casting. Being loyal to the original anglo-saxon demographics, or even ethnostates within the world, would be a potential profit loss.
Zachary Wilson
>...they tested the concept of selling or renting DVDs by mail by mailing a compact disc to Hastings' house in Santa Cruz. When the disc arrived intact, they decided to take on the $16 billion home video sales and rental industry. imagine if the postal service fucked up during that delivery and the disc came in cracked. internet DVD rental and then streaming would still happen, but the corporate landscape would look different, and we wouldn’t have ST or House of Cards, which are probably the most culturally influential netflix shows
