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Re:HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO ... by Gmo on Thursday April 19, 2012 @03:21PM (#3864653)
In your numbers, you don't include people that currently have cable TV but would switch to streaming if the possibility was offered ...
Re:HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO ... by parteese14 on Friday April 20, 2012 @07:34AM (#3867400)
They have consultants brought in who do this for a living. I don't know the specifics but, at a high level, they will introduce a range of possible values of people who would switch and the correlated range of losses that would inflict. They get a recommendation based on a number of other variables which tightens the range and have to make a judgment call. This is what they decided.