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Netflix can't chill: It will face a flood of new streaming competitors this year

Streaming TV is going from a trickle to a flood, with more content, competitors and binge-watching viewers expected in 2019.

Entertainment giants Disney and WarnerMedia are among the major players set to launch new streaming services in the new year, leveraging their enormous TV and movie libraries in a bid to challenge Netflix for online supremacy.

Get your thumbs in shape now for some serious menu scrolling ahead.

"It's the year of consumer choice because there are so many of them," said Brett Sappington, digital entertainment research director at Parks Associates.

Internet television,

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