76% Of Netflix Subscribers Think Netflix Can Replace Traditional TV (cordcutting.com)

An anonymous reader writes: It turns out plenty of people think Netflix is ready to replace their traditional TV. According to a survey on AllFlicks (Editor's note: the site is Netflix focused, so it's not really a neutral audience), 75.6 percent of Netflix subscribers said that the on-demand movies and TV shows streaming service has grown good enough to replace whatever the traditional TV has to offer. The participants, however, also noted that the streaming service still can't replace live sports coverage or the experience of the movie theater. In some other news, Netflix knows which picture and video you're likely to click.

Comments

Thankful

[lw54]

If Netflix provided the movie theatre experience, I would cancel my service.

Re:Thankful

[toonces33]

We haven't been to a theatre in a couple of years. The "commercials" that are now common are annoying. As are other patrons who can't seem to figure out that when they ask people to turn off their cell phones that it applies to everyone.

Of course there is also the issue that to us most of the movies suck.

Re:Thankful

[PCM2]

No commercials during the movie

You're kidding, surely. Comedies, especially, are full of them these days.

Re:Thankful

[Applehu Akbar]

Slap? Heck, first I'd get all the men and ugly broads to leave the room... You can imagine what happens next.

The pretty girls would still ignore you, just as they do now.

24% of Netflix subscribers like sports

[Overzeetop]

Amirite?

Re:24% of Netflix subscribers like sports

[Quirkz]

I like sports, but I don't need them. I mostly don't like TV, but do miss it a little, sometimes. Netflix, for $9/month does maybe 80% of what I want. Compared to the $50 I'd be paying for TV, it's an acceptable tradeoff, but not quite a full replacement. The Netflix exclusives like Daredevil and Longmire help make up a little bit of that difference.

Re:24% of Netflix subscribers like sports

[Archangel Michael]

That may be true. However, going from app to app to app to app to find the game(other live event) you're looking for is really lame. If Netflix was smart, they would incorporate all those other "app" experiences (when possible).

For instance Hockey, is it in CCSN, NBCSN, ESPN, ABC, or NHL app (or somewhere else). And then trying to stream it to my TV is a whole other issue (good luck). Cable/Sat TV is really dying, it just doesn't know it yet. Netcraft may even be confirming it.

Its coming

[Mr D from 63]

With ESPN now talking to HULU, we are moving closer to a break of the sports content lock that cable has held, and hopefully we'll have IPTV choices to suit our needs from true competitors. Cable is going to have to adjust. With smartphone habits overtaking TV watching anyhow, its a matter of time.

Re:Its coming

[reboot246]

Football fans need more than just ESPN. During the college and pro seasons I watch multiple ESPN stations, FoxSports, the NFL Network, and all of the broadcast networks that broadcast games live.

in short, it's going to be a long time before I can drop cable.

Re:Its coming

[toonces33]

True. ESPN itself seems to offer mainly talking heads flapping their gums and filling time. The games themselves are what people really want to see, and those are scattered on a number of channels.

Re:yah, right!

[Anonymous Coward]

they started cutting their movie selection and wasting money on a handful of self-made shows instead.

Netflix didn't cut their movie selection, the studios did. Netflix would be perfectly happy to show you every movie ever made if they could.

Also, their own shows are sufficiently successful (both commercially and critically) that for you to call that a "waste" is objectively wrong in every sense.

If they're so smart...

[drinkypoo]

If they know what I'm likely to click, why don't they show it to me, instead of aggressively doing the opposite?

Re:Can?

[Moof123]

News has been broken for a long time. I can't tune into any of 24 hour networks without wanting to throw something at the TV due to the utter stupidity being displayed by the teleprompter monkeys. Evening local news is filled with "Is your cat going to kill you? After the break..." I'd rather get my news online where I can choose to skip past the inane crap.

Re:Can?

[Darinbob]

The economics never made sense. There is no possible way they are getting $10/month out of me for advertising. By paying that much in subscription I am doing more to subsidize the content than by watching the commercials. Sure, there are idiotic marketing people that think my eyeballs are worth that much money but they're delusional. I'm buying no-name brands, whatever is the cheapest, or the same thing I bought last time, and then I make it last for as long as possible. And I skipped past most the commercials anyway as I had a DVR. I never even watched the superbowl commercials. Now maybe I'm unusual, but I think getting $10/month from me is pretty damn good.

Then look at it this way. If they did not have Netflix, then I wouldn't watch the TV. It is no longer an option of cable/satellite vs Netflix, it's nothing vs Netflix. TV companies are also delusional in thinking that everyone cutting the cord will be back if the streaming dried up. There is no mandate to watch TV, no mandate to listen to music, no mandate to watch movies, yet all those industries assume they have a captive audience.

Even if you are right, they should still not have to rely on my charity to stay in business. I'll make decisions that are good for *me* rather than decisions that keep some of the country's most hated corporations in power.

I've dumped netflix.

[mjwx]

Since Netflix has bowed to the content conglomerates and started blocking people getting around geoblocks (100% legal where I live) I've terminated my membership.

Wilst I've got the skill, I dont have the time, patience or willingness to spend the money on complex solutions involving running my own VPN server from an S3 container. Fuck that, I've gone back to Channel BT.

Yes Netflix, you can tell the content owners that instead of paying for their content like I was happy to do before they started fucking around, they've forced me back to piracy, mission fucking haycomplished guys, well fucking done.