Netflix now has about 30 million streaming subscribers worldwide, more than 25 million in the United States, in addition to about 8 million people—admittedly dwindling daily—who still pay to get DVDs in the mail. At $7.99 a month, that’s about $3.6 billion a year rolling in. Nearly a third of all U.S. Internet streaming traffic in the evening comes through Netflix. (YouTube accounts for 13 percent, Facebook less than 2 percent.) February 07, 2013 at 02:26PM

After crunching the numbers, the Atlantic Wire’s Rebecca Greenfield notes that Netflix will need an additional 520,000 subscribers to cover the $100 millon cost of the project — not a significant increase, percentage-wise, to its existing 33 million userbase. Netflix’s plan is to roll out at least five new shows a year, meaning they’ll realistically need a 10 percent increase in users to cover costs. February 04, 2013 at 10:19PM

People often forgot why they went to cable TV in the first place. Initially the cable system was called a “community antenna” designed to give people great reception. The newer all-digital reception is so superior to the old analog system that the public will realize that it can abandon the cable and go back to its roots. October 08, 2012 at 09:42AM