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Netflix shares rose 13% in after-hours trading after the company announced it had added 5 million subscribers in the first quarter of 2015:
That brings the total global subscribers to the service to 62.3 million.
Netflix also said revenue increased by 23% from the same period a year earlier to $1.57bn (£1.06bn).
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Shares in Netflix have risen by nearly 40% since the start of this year.However, the company has faced increasing threats as companies such as Hulu and HBO have sought to commission their own, original on demand content to compete with Netflix [shows] like House of Cards and Orange is the New Black.
The last couple of years have seen other companies like Hulu, HBO, and now CBS following suit. If ESPN or other sports players do the same the cable industry could end with a bang, not a whimper.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2015, @01:37PM
Then maybe, perhaps, they should have taken the subsidies they've been receiving to upgrade said capacity and actually use it to upgrade said capacity, instead of using it as profit. They were paid, they did not deliver, if this were a restaurant we'd get our money back.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Friday April 17 2015, @07:13PM
Then maybe, perhaps, they should have taken the subsidies they've been receiving to upgrade said capacity and actually use it to upgrade said capacity, instead of using it as profit. They were paid, they did not deliver, if this were a restaurant we'd get our money back.
You just don't get it do you?
No amount of upgrade can allow everyone who wants to watch the superbowl do so at the same time when each viewer needs a separate feed. The best system for that is ... ... wait for it... TV.
You are trying to solve a physical problem with political pronouncements and pontification.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2015, @11:04PM
You mean like broadcasting the radio waves out into the air such that anyone who who wants to watch it that is within the broadcast range just needs a receiver? The cable system is still just sending data, tv, voice, or other, and there's only congestion when its way oversold. All they have to do is not oversell the damn thing and upgrade as needed to handle new customers.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday April 17 2015, @11:38PM
You mean like broadcasting the radio waves out into the air such that anyone who who wants to watch it that is within the broadcast range just needs a receiver? The cable system is still just sending data, tv, voice, or other, and there's only congestion when its way oversold. All they have to do is not oversell the damn thing and upgrade as needed to handle new customers.
One tv feed over the air or over the cable serves ALL viewers. One feed.
Over sold isn't the issue here. Stop harping on that.
100 million feeds from the source at the same time to accommodate every device with a separate super-bowl stream isn't possible. Even if you built a stadium right on top of the intersection of all internet backbone cables, you still couldn't do it.
One TV feed can be sent everywhere, to 5 billion tv sets with no congestion issues. You cant send 5 billion separate tcp/ip streams. Please go study the difference between a single common stream to multiple point vs multiple unique streams to multiple points. Go read up on multi-cast, and why even IT wouldn't work.
But please stop harping on oversold bandwidth. The problem isn't at your house. Its a the origination.
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(Score: 1) by kryptonianjorel on Saturday April 18 2015, @04:22AM
Never heard of multicast? Live events would be very easy to handle.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday April 18 2015, @05:01AM
I mentioned multicast. Read the thread.
Have you noticed any use of multicast? Why not?
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