Consumers who dreamed of the a-la-carte TV future might soon wish for a return to the good old days when cable and other pay-TV services packaged channels of programming for them.
"We're about to test the consumer limit on streaming video services," said Brett Sappington, senior research director and principal analyst at Parks Associates. "The number of services per household continues to go up. We've been watching the number of households that gets three or more services and it's gone up every year."
From the article "How Many Streaming Video Choices Are Too Many With Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney — And More? " by Patrick Seitz and Aparna Narayanan.
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