| theprof00 said: When you know what you're talking about, arguing is easy. Streaming service is literally killing cable. Don't believe me? I don't care. The facts are there. |
Netflix has been around for over a decade and you're providing a graph that shows just in the last 7 years cable has added million of new subscribers. But oh noes, they maybe lost 257,000 subscribers in 2013. I hope Mike Comcast and Julio Verizon can feed their kids tonight. So now I guess they only have around 100,000,000 subscribers.
Again, LOL.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/netflix-was-supposed-to-kill-cable-so-why-is-it-begging-to-join-cable/280627/
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/08/economist-explains-17
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/cable-tv-is-not-going-away/309376/
Those are just 3 quick Google links that show that no, Netflix has certainly not been "killing" anything. The economy, unemployment, and ridiculous high cable prices likely have just as much to do with a small 1% drop in television membership as Netflix does. Only around 1/5th of Netflix subscribers actually cancel their cable. So what you're actually seeing is most people view the service as a nice add-on, which is probably why Netflix is actually trying to be added onto cable TV packages.
So hey, you're welcome. This is kind of off topic though so I won't respond about it again.
