Comment on Hey Hollywood: Netflix Isn’t the Enemy; Old Thinking Is by Michael

It's also not fair because at the time the deal was struck, Netflix only had 8.7 million users and a small fraction of that were streaming actively. Do that math and it gets closer to the $2 per sub/mo. By committing to a guaranteed annual contract with Starz so early, Netflix was taking decent risk if streaming never caught on.

Comment on Hey Hollywood: Netflix Isn’t the Enemy; Old Thinking Is by Michael

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Comment on Why Tiered Broadband Is the Enemy of Innovation by Charter Follows Comcast With Broadband Usage Caps: Tech News «

[...] Lamont said that 98 percent of Charter’s 5.2 million customers will be unaffected by the decision to enforce the caps (Charter actually first included caps in its acceptable usage policy in February 2009). However, demand for broadband is increasing every week as folks use more online applications and consumer video from the web. For example, streaming a movie on Netflix uses about 1 GB per hour, so that equates to about 100 hours of Netflix streaming video each month. Services such as Netflix and Hulu Plus that involve high-quality video streams are only becoming more popular and pervasive as more consumers connect their televisions to the web. We made this argument back in 2008 when Comcast implemented its 250 GB per month cap and continue to believe that such caps could act as a threat to innovation. [...]

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