IT’S not just network and cable television. It’s everything that’s good on video, as far as the Emmys are concerned.

That point was driven home emphatically on Thursday as the nominations for this year’s Emmy Awards were announced. The showdown for outstanding drama series spread across cable and pay television services with the list of nominees including some of the most highly praised shows in recent memory. AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” in its last season, and HBO’s “True Detective,” in its first, are expected to be strong contenders. They were joined by “Game of Thrones” on HBO, which topped the list with 19 nominations, and “House of Cards” on Netflix, with 13.

“Downton Abbey” and “Mad Men” were the other dramas nominated.

Netflix, the subscription streaming service, was far more a presence than it was last year, racking up 31 nominations, including major nominations in the top series categories for “House of Cards” and “Orange Is the New Black.” That was more nominations than some long established networks, including Fox, which had only 18. (That was the Emmy-listed number; Fox pointed out that one of its shows, “Cosmos,” received 12 nominations, but they were separated out as Fox/NatGEO, because the series ran on two networks.) On cable, A&E had exactly one nomination.

The strong showing for Netflix was driven by 13 nominations for “House of Cards” and 12 for the newcomer “Orange Is the New Black.” Both had multiple entries in the acting categories. Other big winners included two FX mini-series, “Fargo,” which racked up the second highest number of nominations (after “Game of Thrones”), with 18, and “American Horror Story,” with 17. “Breaking Bad” had 16, as did the HBO movie “The Normal Heart.” “True Detective” had 12.