Interesting backwards step here.
The Blu-ray’s list price is $65.99 (Amazon’s offering it for $52.99) and the DVD will be $55.99 (and is offered for $44.99).
Or you could get a Netflix subscription for $7.99 a month.
Extreme binge viewing was in full force during the first weekend “Cards” was available to subs, according to data from Procera Networks, which found on one broadband network that about one-quarter of those who watched the first episode motored through all 13 episodes.
Procera won’t identify the ISP because of client confidentiality. But given that the company measures usage across the networks of five of the top 10 cable operators and three of the top 5 DSL operators in North America, Procera has as good a glimpse of audience behavior as there is to get outside of Netflix’s HQ.
By Procera’s yardstick, just over 2% of Netflix subs on the network watched the first episode of “Cards,” a number that fell to 1.3% for the second episode. By the 13th episode, .59% was still hanging on.
Netflix has 30 million subscribers, so if these numbers are to be believed 600,000 watched the first episode and 177,000 made it to the end.
For comparison, 600K is on par with an episode of ‘Treme’ on HBO.
Now of course, these numbers are kind of irrelevant to Netflix because people are going to continue to watch the series and find the series anew indefinitely.
Trailer: Netflix and David Fincher’s ‘House of Cards’ | Variety
Looks good but did we really need another White House/Political drama?
