Posted on 10/16/2013 11:33:40 AM PDT by EveningStar
The television two-step is familiar to nearly every household with a TV set and a Netflix subscription. To watch cable, the television must be on one setting; to browse Netflix, it has to be on another. For some family members, toggling between the two is easy; for others, it’s so befuddling that it discourages any straying from cable at all.
Now, in a sign of on-demand TV’s popularity, some cable companies, including Comcast, Charter Communications and Cox Communications, are talking with Netflix about doing away with the two-step and making the subscription service — and other online video services — available through the set-top boxes that most Americans have in their living rooms.
For the providers, the discussions are part of a broader shift toward Internet-powered delivery of television. But they also exemplify how the Comcasts of the world are gradually accepting, if not altogether embracing, Netflix, even as the cable pioneer John Malone continues to recommend that the cable industry create a Netflix rival.
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Thanks to Netflix, I just discovered the greatness of “The IT Crowd”.
Comcast - blech.
Roku!
I like House of Cards, and have watched every episode of Dirty Jobs and Lost. They have Breaking Bad and Walking Dead if you like that, and of course the British mysteries.
This was bound to happen. A lot more money to be made on both sides.
The cable companies will have to either adapt or die.
Either this is a trap, or the cable companies are desperate.
Hey Gator!Not only is The IT Crowd hilarious but so too is Mrs. Brown and Sons. That’s on Youtube but better on a large screen TV so that’s where I watch it. Orange is the New Black is pretty raw, more than House of Cards (U.S.) but interesting.
I have watched all the episodes of Mad Men, quite a few seasons of King of the Hill and a lot of Columbo. I enjoy not having to watch commercials. The movies are good too.
I am on Direct TV but I doubt if I will renew my contract when the time is up.
Often I don’t even turn the TV on if all I am interested in is news. I get all I want here.
I like NetFlix.
Best part?
NO COMMERCIALS!
Tried Hulu Plus - only once.
Too many bloody commercials. I really got spoiled with NetFlix.
The only thing I’m disappointed about NetFlix is they removed Monk from their streaming lineup.
Google Fiber already does this with both Netflix and VUDU.
Roku rocks! Best entertainment buy anyone could make!
We still have people in Pittsburgh who could never figure out the A-B switches on the old Warner Qube system.
"Have you tried rebooting?"
My favorite was the new Emergency Number...
0118 999 881 999 119 725.......3
Through many utility Co.’s over the years - electric, phone, CATV, water, gas, etc - Comcast truly stood out as exceptional in the SUCKS category. I’d go back to Cox. Never again Comcast, I regret not sprinkling metal shavings in their boxes before I turned them in.
Yup, it’s not about the box but about who owns the content and who provides the bandwidth. I’d get more excited about using my Comcast box except I picked up a Roku for $5 and figure I can do the switcheroo.
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
and they removed King of the Hill. When morning came we served our kids breakfast and Hank Hill before we took them to school.
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