Question

Paid Programming from cable companies still largely follows the model it has been following for many years. How will technology and the public’s appetite for on'demand, streaming-video change the cable tv industry in the coming years?

Answer 1

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The on ‘demand video streaming services will change the paid programming cable TV industry in coming years:

• People love customization that wanted to keep only what they love to see and love to keep.
• The drawback of cable industry is that, they provide the service as packages, in which they include that we don’t want to watch, that is the customers viewing behavior is determined by the cable companies. The users need to pay for services he don’t love to use. This disadvantage is exploited by video streaming services like Netflix.
• In video-streaming services we can see what we want at any time we comfortable to watch. This customization attracts the customer’s attraction.
• The video-streaming services have some drawbacks also, the high cost bandwidth problems will affect it, but in coming years it will improve and thus the users will love to use the services by replacing cable TVs.
• Thus with the improvement in bandwidth related issues and increase in the range of programs also with affordable pricing of video streaming services, the cable TV service may vanish in future.