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> As opposed to broadcast and cable?

Which is why nobody bothers checking out broadcast/cable shows anymore. They have become synonyms with crap.

Netflix is playing a dangerous game here by letting content quality slip. And I don't think it's about the money, they obviously have it and are willing to spend it, but there is only so much acting/producing talent out there.

[scarface74]

Which is why nobody bothers checking out broadcast/cable shows anymore. They have become synonyms with crap.

The infamous “I haven’t watched TV in 10 years. Do people still watch TV” thinking.

74% of households still subscribe to cable.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nelsongranados/2018/03/30/2017-...

[bluejekyll]

From the same article: “OTT-only households tripled in the past four years (about 40% annually), and I can think of no reason why this trend would slow down”, where OTT means over-the-top streaming services like Netflix.

It’s clear that people enjoy that experience more than cable, which isn’t surprising given it's on-demand nature.

Cable is on its way down, and quickly, where people have the choice.

[scarface74]

I don’t deny that. But to say that people don’t currently watch cable when three in four households do still have cable is false.

My older son went a year without cable or home internet. He used his phone for tethering and his PS4 to watch video on TV. Of course he used our family Netflix plan, Hulu, and played video off of my Plex server.

I doubt my younger son will ever have traditional cable. We haven’t even bothered with giving him our DirecTVNow login or getting a third stream for him to watch.

He is also coming up in a house with unlimited gigabit Ethernet, every room wired for gigabit Ethernet and Roku TVs, AppleTV boxes, and Roku sticks all over the house....

[ryanwaggoner]

What? Tens of millions of people watch broadcast and cable shows. The average household still watches almost eight hours per day of TV, and I don’t think that includes Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, etc:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/when-...

[zuminator]

You said it yourself. They're not letting quality slip. There is just a paucity of quality period. But like a shark Netflix has to keep moving or die. They can't afford to wait for the best stuff. Also it turns out that Adam Sandler movies are really popular. So maybe their slip isn't as dangerous as you might think.

[dragonwriter]

> Which is why nobody bothers checking out broadcast/cable shows anymore.

Nobody in your circle of friends, perhaps.

[cortesoft]

So you are basically saying everything is crap?

[justin_oaks]

I'd say 90%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

[friedman23]

Are you saying that almost everything isn't crap?

[jessaustin]

That's why no one watches TV!