Sorry, I wasn't precise. I meant there's no good technological reason. It sucks, because I could have exactly what I wanted if everyone could agree on the money. I think that everyone is underestimating how much consumers are willing to pay for content. If you have HBO and Cinemax, you're paying $20-25/mo, three times what Netflix charges. If there is better content on Netflix, obviously everyone is going to jump ship from cable. I totally agree that Neflix is awesome for Indie movies. Where I live there are very few theaters that show indies, so to all of a sudden have access to a lot of movies I would otherwise never ever hear about, let alone see, is awesome. I hope the powers that be at Netflix realize this and promote the shit out of that side of their business, perhaps even help fund it. Maybe with House of Cards Netflix wanted to make a splash, so that's why they went the $100m route. But hopefully long term they'll keep in mind that a good script is way more important than a high budget. Seinfeld was 90% shot in that one crappy set of Jerry's apartment, and it's one of the greatest TV shows of all time. (Obviously, it turned high budget after a couple seasons, because the actors commanded such a high price, but it certainly didn't start out that way.)There's ample reason, lots of it quoted in the article.