It's a bet either way and anecdotes are anecdotes, but Netflix has lots of data and personally this is how I behave.
I've dropped TV entirely for Hulu. What I can't get on Hulu I order from iTunes.
If every movie on Netflix were streaming, I'd watch it that way, even at a lower quality.
So, YMMV, maybe you're 100% the opposite and/or you know lots of people who care about 780p, 10455p, and whatever else. But I don't think I'm from Pluto, either.
From a strategic perspective I think he's right in the limit. Bandwidth is going to infinity. If consumers prefer timeliness to quality they'll put up with lower quality and wait for bandwidth to improve.
The end game is the same: high-res everything, instantly.
It's a bet either way and anecdotes are anecdotes, but Netflix has lots of data and personally this is how I behave.
I've dropped TV entirely for Hulu. What I can't get on Hulu I order from iTunes.
If every movie on Netflix were streaming, I'd watch it that way, even at a lower quality.
So, YMMV, maybe you're 100% the opposite and/or you know lots of people who care about 780p, 10455p, and whatever else. But I don't think I'm from Pluto, either.
From a strategic perspective I think he's right in the limit. Bandwidth is going to infinity. If consumers prefer timeliness to quality they'll put up with lower quality and wait for bandwidth to improve.
The end game is the same: high-res everything, instantly.