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FT.com / Comment / Analysis - Entertainment: A pointer to profits - 0 views

  • cash-strapped young are leading those shunning cable subscription
  • sector lost more than 700,000 subscribers in the US in the second quarter of the year
  • partly because of competition from satellite operators and telecommunications
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  • But new streaming or “over the top” services such as Hulu were also a factor,
  • For Netflix, the pay-TV industry is as ripe for revolution as the DVD rental market was a decade ago
  • etflix’s DVD service has amassed 15m subscribers in the past 10 ye
  • 60 per cent have already tried the service
  • Canada in the next few months and, next year, in the UK, a
  • ernet “thrives on inefficiency”
  • cable TV, “the inefficiency is in the cost
  • 4bn at its peak in the US in 2004 to $10.87bn in 2009
  • sing the money saved on postage as customers shift from its DVD subscription service to streaming.
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    "There's definitely some substitution taking place
Alex Street

CNBC's Fast Money : Third of Young Netflix Users Cut Cable - CNBC - 0 views

  • 37 percent of Netflix subscribers aged 25 to 34 substitute Netflix for pay television
  • 30 percent of users between 18 and 24 are using Netflix’s streaming service instead of cable or satellite
  • Netflix story just works,” s
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  • Big Media has a small window of opportunity to control its own destiny,
  • major U.S. entertainment conglomerates control approximately 70 percent of all TV viewing through its
Alex Street

Keeping the US Cable Industry Attractive | Bodhi Tree Blog - 0 views

  • substitute services is the biggest factor,
  • hyper competitive
  • profits are likely to decrease
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  • US Cable industry is characterized by large incumbents with dominant market share
  • net margin for the industry is relatively low at just 4.1%
  • due to the high capital investment needed to build the infrastructure, high programming costs, and the erosion of profits from substitute service
Alex Street

Mobile Broadband Penetration | Unwired Insight - 0 views

  • ixed broadband services are being substituted by mobile broadband services,
Alex Street

Growing interest for OTT and Connected TV | Broadband TV News - 0 views

  • 2013, In-Stat predicts that nearly 40% of all digital TV shipments will be web-enabled devices
  • 2009, there were five broadband households worldwide for every web-enabled CE device. By 2013, this ratio will be 2:1.
Alex Street

Netflix Says Customers Keep Cable, Aren't Cord Cutting | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllT... - 0 views

  • We still see no evidence that our subscribers cut cords at a greater rate than the population.”
  • least one recent survey, whi
  • Cable companies like Comcast insist that they don’t see evidence of it. But Ivan Seidenberg, who runs cable competitor Verizon, says it’s inevitable.
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  • total multi-channel video subscribers is continuing to grow in the US.
  • we haven’t seen any evidence of tha
  • t: In the past year, his service has added 5.8 million subscribers
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