Lately, there are two questions I get asked whenever I speak, and whenever I see old friends.
The first is “Can I get rid of my cable yet?” It’s a tempting thought; customers like the brands of the new players, still hate the cable company, and would save maybe $1000 a year . Given the number of options – Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, iTunes, Google etc. – it seems worth a shot. But it’s not as easy as it sounds. We’ll come back to this question soon.
To answer that, let’s begin with the second, bigger question: “Will online video sites (like YouTube) and new services (like Netflix) kill cable?”