[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: Netflix Users Watch 10 TV Shows a Week
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 08:59:48 -0500
On Nov 2, 2015, at 8:50 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Craig might want to note that PCs have gained in use for watching Netflix,
and while mobile device usage for Netflix has doubled in three years, PCs are
still used more than mobile devices. Viewing on TVs beats them all. So once
again, I'm not sure how using a PC to send the image to a TV would be
classified in these stats (whether hardwired or via something like Miracast).
Last first. The number of people using a PC to watch Netflix on a TV would be
in the noise - nearly impossible to measure, as the best stats I can find
suggest hardly anyone still does this. Perhaps there is still a market for
using a laptop and Miracast...
I would suggest that a very high percentage of the people watching Netflix on
PCs are students and "road warriors" with laptops. The important number is the
47% watching Netflix on their TV. That is where Netflix is having the greatest
impact on the MVPDs and linear TV.
I may drop my Netflix subscription, as we are hurting the averages. There are
many months where we do not watch anything on Netflix.
Bert may be pleased to know that I am a step closer to cutting the TV cord with
Cox. My wife was paying bills this weekend and noticed that Cox increased our
monthly bill from about $120 to $178. She was pissed!
We had a negotiated deal that should have run out a year ago; they just got
around to ratcheting up the rates. So I went to the Cox store and worked
something out with a very pleasant customer service agent. In reality these are
sales people - I don't know if they are on commission, but they are tasked with
retaining the customer while getting any up charge they can.
I told her up front that we would not get into another two year contract - that
the TV world was going to change dramatically next year. She responded that Cox
was planning to make major changes next year as well. As I've said before, the
MVPDs have plenty of room to compete...
In the end she found a $35/month discount good for four years with no contract.
I also dropped our DVR service, saving $12/mo. The net increase is about $9/mo.
What was more interesting was she was focused on "not changing a thing" in
terms of the physical setup. They don't want the DVR box that we have paid for
several times over back; they are just disabling the DVR over the network.
So now I am just waiting for a viable OTT MVPD alternative before I cut the
cord. Cox probably won't care. Our 50 Mbps Internet service is currently
$67/mo. My wife threatened to just drop TV entirely...
But not the Internet!
Regards
Craig
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