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dmendyk
dmendyk
4/13/2016 8:28:02 AM
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Re: Apples and pears?
So the back of the envelope tells us that most of the people who responded to the survey can't really judge comparative quality because they don't have access to all the different services. Rather than read this as some sort of validation of quality, the fact that Netflix is now perceived as a content leader, at least among the streaming set, is the bigger news nugget.

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elizabethv
elizabethv
4/13/2016 7:57:39 AM
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Re: Apples and pears?
You make a great point, most users likely don't have both Netflix and HBO to make a true judgement. (But then the same could be said for previous years, most HBO subscribers likely didn't have Netflix as well.) Maybe you could only vote if you actually had both? But then they weren't even the only ones being considered. Either way, I'd wager series like "Making of a Murder" and "House of Cards" and "Orange is the New Black" all had a lot to do with that popularity. 

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afwriter
afwriter
4/12/2016 10:27:18 PM
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Stand Alone Services
I wonder how this will affect the stand alone services from HBO and Showtime.  I wonder if they will pull out or pour more money into them.

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Ariella
Ariella
4/12/2016 7:44:28 PM
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Re: Apples and pears?
@dmendy I went over to the Variety article to check it out. What really surprises me is how much people are willing to spend for so many television services. How many hours a day are they all watching, I wonder. From the article:

At the same time, Netflix customers are more likely to also subscribe to HBO, Showtime or Starz than non-Netflix subscribers. About 49% of Netflix members say they have an HBO subscription and 35% pay for Showtime (compared with 40% and 28%, respectively, of total respondents).

"Netflix members continue to be heavy TV consumers, and actually overindex to premium networks when compared to the overall survey population," Swinburne and the Morgan Stanley analysts wrote.

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dmendyk
dmendyk
4/12/2016 3:53:23 PM
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Apples and pears?
I wonder how this survey was conducted. The fact that the vast majority of HBO subscribers are through conventional video while Netflix is OTT makes this kind of polling hard to do. Also, it's not like most people have access to all of the services included in the survey.

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