The streaming video race, featuring Hulu/YouTube/Netflix/Blockbuster
April 6th, 2009
This type of competition can only mean good things for us, the customer. In what seems like a recent flurry of activity, we are seeing the major players in the streaming video marketplace positioning themselves for what is turning into a good fight for eyes on their content. Alliances are forming quickly this year, with Disney/Hulu and Blockbuster/TiVo leading the news near the end of March and YouTube/Sony and Netflix/MTV both releasing their big news in early April. We, as consumers of this content, have more and more options moving forward when choosing what to watch, and how to watch it. Will this impact people subscribing to cable or satellite programming? I think so…and so does the New York greater metropolitan area.