Verizon Says They'll Deliver 1 Gbps When You Want It → Re: Demand

Those streaming services don't provide the same content that is available on pay-tv.

Who cares. I don't watch a lot of TV anyway and if I have to switch from time-filling crappy reality TV shows and old crappy movies, what's the difference?

The public cares. If you can't obtain equivalent services via streaming, cord-cutting ain't gonna happen much.

Yeah, cord cutters aren't real and are of no concern:

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you'd be surprised what is legally available.

Indeed. Cord-cutting simply isn't happening in any significant or measurable way.

Its the "cord nevers" (could you invent a more awkward term?), who may actually become relevant, as they grow and couple up and multiply and play house, and try their best to avoid buying double/triple-play.

My household is very happy with 30-some channels of free over-the-air broadcast TV, much of it in HD. Plus we have Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Crackle.

Total cost of video content is under $10/month, and we get way more than everything we want to watch. I don't count the cost of Amazon Prime because we've been using it (for free Amazon.com shipping) since long before they included free streaming-- and we'd continue our Prime membership even without streaming. Crackle is free.