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With kids at home, it’s hard to binge-view Netflix’s House of Cards

TORONTO – Twenty-seven percent of Netflix subscribers in Canada watched at least one episode of the on demand viewing company’s original series House of Cards within the first 27 days of the show’s release, according to new research from Toronto-based Solutions Research Group (SRG). While there has been much made of “binge-viewing” and a possible paradigm shift where consumers want to watch all episodes of certain series’ in one or a few sittings, SRG set about to find out if all those viewers actually binge-viewed. Some did, but many are watching at their own pace, according to the research. One-in-three...