{"id":1284,"date":"2011-01-19T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/01\/19\/netflix-at-a-crossroads-the-costs-of-mailing-dvds-vs-streaming-content\/"},"modified":"2011-01-19T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T16:08:00","slug":"netflix-at-a-crossroads-the-costs-of-mailing-dvds-vs-streaming-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/01\/19\/netflix-at-a-crossroads-the-costs-of-mailing-dvds-vs-streaming-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix at a crossroads. The costs of mailing DVDs vs. streaming content."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tNetflix is offering streaming-only service in Canada and they&#8217;re starting to heavily push that option in the US. Whether they can ramp up the selection of streaming titles without raising subscription costs precipitously is a big question. Will instant access trump the loss in quality and occasional network glitches inherent in streaming video? Will a major shift to streaming content consume so much bandwidth that it clogs the internet? According to Sandvine, a company that analyzes internet traffic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandvine.com\/news\/global_broadband_trends.asp\">Netflix already accounts for 20% of the downstream traffic in the US during peak times<\/a> and that&#8217;s with their current assortment of mostly non-premium content. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/dvds_are_netflixs_past_streaming_is_the_future.php\">link<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is offering streaming-only service in Canada and they&#8217;re starting to heavily push that option in the US. Whether they can ramp up the selection of streaming titles without raising subscription costs precipitously is a big question. Will instant access trump the loss in quality and occasional network glitches inherent in streaming video? Will a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-streaming-video","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}