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Streaming services already have hundreds of millions of subscribers combined, world wide.
In the US alone, Netflix and Disney + probably have numbers approaching 100 million.
Maybe more combined or maybe each of them are well north of 50 million.
There are two kinds of streaming, one replicating your cable TV channels and one where they offer exclusive shows and movies where a lot of cable TV subscribers have to subscribe to get access to this exclusive content.
I think the latter services are going to dominate if they're not already. I don't think Netflix is necessarily making huge profits but they have huge revenues and are turning most of that money over to make new content.
For people who want 4K HDR content, you can only get it through streaming. We won't see 4K on OTA or cable for a long time.
In a couple of years, streaming services may offer 4K NFL games. Amazon will start to stream the Thursday Night games and they could offer 4K.
There is not enough economic incentive for local TV stations to offer 4K broadcasts and the networks are not in a hurry either. Nor are cable TV companies going to put too many 4K channels on their systems.
However, cable TV companies have monopolies over Internet in most markets. Somehow, 5G for home was going to disrupt that but the pandemic has disrupted that. Or maybe it was a pipe dream all along.
So cable TV is already dependent on cable Internet for their profits, not TV service.
Thus they will still be in the game if cord-cutting accelerates.
In the US alone, Netflix and Disney + probably have numbers approaching 100 million.
Maybe more combined or maybe each of them are well north of 50 million.
There are two kinds of streaming, one replicating your cable TV channels and one where they offer exclusive shows and movies where a lot of cable TV subscribers have to subscribe to get access to this exclusive content.
I think the latter services are going to dominate if they're not already. I don't think Netflix is necessarily making huge profits but they have huge revenues and are turning most of that money over to make new content.
For people who want 4K HDR content, you can only get it through streaming. We won't see 4K on OTA or cable for a long time.
In a couple of years, streaming services may offer 4K NFL games. Amazon will start to stream the Thursday Night games and they could offer 4K.
There is not enough economic incentive for local TV stations to offer 4K broadcasts and the networks are not in a hurry either. Nor are cable TV companies going to put too many 4K channels on their systems.
However, cable TV companies have monopolies over Internet in most markets. Somehow, 5G for home was going to disrupt that but the pandemic has disrupted that. Or maybe it was a pipe dream all along.
So cable TV is already dependent on cable Internet for their profits, not TV service.
Thus they will still be in the game if cord-cutting accelerates.