[140769] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Wed May 18 19:47:38 2011
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:47:31 -0700
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
CC: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=rBhD_kTnOpt54=OMQM18-5m0-qw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 18/05/11 4:42 PM, Dorn Hetzel wrote:
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> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:35 PM, JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com
> <mailto:jcdill.lists@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> On 18/05/11 1:13 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
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> It's not. These people need a pair of rabbit ears and a DVR.
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> Roughly 90% of the content I'm interested in watching is not
> available over the air. E.g. Comedy Central, CNN, Discovery,
> Showtime/HBO, etc.
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> jc
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> Sure, but I'm guessing that something like that 80% of the content
> that 80% of people watch *is* available on some satellite/cable channel.
Yes, but most isn't available "over the air" with rabbit ears and a
DVR. One of the big appeals of Netflix is the $8/month for all you can
eat versus ~$40-60 for various cable and satellite packages.
jc
