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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Netflix just happened to slip in, mostly unnoticed, before the CableCos noticed.
Hulu got in because it is owned by the content providers and the CableCos weren't abbout to mess with them *as a unit*.
Amazon taking Prime streaming standalone, even in the US, is a non-trivial effort. Even if they want to, they may not be able to deploy for a year or more. (Again, it's taken Microsoft three years to get even a skeleton IPTV offering in place and *they* have extensive Hollywood contacts going back to the last century.)
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Netflix have just launched here in the UK, but with a selection of programming that I really can't imagine is going to attract too many people.