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About a 100M households. I found [0], for example.

[0] http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/currency/nielsen-pay-t...

> ... there were 99.44 million cable plus households, which includes wired cable, telco and satellite subscribers, ...

I have a cable subscription that I never use. It's not HD so it doesn't even compete with my digital antenna. Why do I have a cable subscription that I don't use? Comcast continuously provides promotional packages with cable that are cheaper than regular internet-only packages. I think practices like this artificially inflate that number, quite a bit.

On the flip side, I have a Netflix subscription I use for less than a movie a month, and about a 20 hour burst when House of Cards is back. I tried looking for better data than I quoted but there's not much :(

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