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> Globo.com only had rights for streaming the content to Brazil... with peak of 433K simultaneous users This is a neat writeup but the bigger point here is highlighted by the opening statements. While i get the massive revenue channel the olympics provides, i can't help but feel that the media stranglehold over the events has gone too far. The olympics represent one of the only instances of global unity through compe…
Seems like that could be a big moneymaker for them, for these big time events that need a "live" aspect.
> Globo.com only had rights for streaming the content to Brazil... with peak of 433K simultaneous users This is a neat writeup but the bigger point here is highlighted by the opening statements. While i get the massive revenue channel the olympics provides, i can't help but feel that the media stranglehold over the events has gone too far. The olympics represent one of the only instances of global unity through compe…
>Unfortunately, it is easier for me to find 20 year old simpsons clips on youtube than it is for me to find a video of Bolt's 100m heat from last week. So glad I wasn't the only one. For whatever reason the nbc link to the video was never on the front of google.
> Globo.com only had rights for streaming the content to Brazil... with peak of 433K simultaneous users This is a neat writeup but the bigger point here is highlighted by the opening statements. While i get the massive revenue channel the olympics provides, i can't help but feel that the media stranglehold over the events has gone too far. The olympics represent one of the only instances of global unity through compe…
I dunno, I found video of Usain Bolt's 2016 100m in less than a minute of looking around on nbcolympics.com. Though I'd have to imagine that that content is geofiltered, since AFAIK NBC only has streaming rights within the US. NBC paid the IOC something absurd like $12B for exclusive US media rights for the games through 2032. Territorial broadcast rights agreements are a huge source of funding for the IOC. It's hard…
Let's say that 1000 thousand people are watching the Olympic games. 500 GB * 1000 people = That's 500 GB of traffic.
Let's convert GB to Gb (multiply by 8) and we're talking 400 Tb.
So.. The title of this article means there are about 1000 people who watched ONLY one event of the olympics and then put off their TV.
Well, I thought Olympics were a big worldwide event... I was wrong.
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Alternative: We can take it the other way around and say that there were 1000 sport events during the Olympic, and one guy to watch them all :D
Just for Fun: I'd love to see the numbers from Dailymotion.com, see how much the Olympic Games are unpopular in comparison.
Let's say that an average video is 500MB nowadays. Be it a show, a short movie, a long HD music video on youtube, or a sport event on the olympics. Let's say that 1000 thousand people are watching the Olympic games. 500 GB * 1000 people = That's 500 GB of traffic. Let's convert GB to Gb (multiply by 8) and we're talking 400 Tb. So.. The title of this article means there are about 1000 people who watched ONLY one even…
I'd assume it's minimum > 20 seconds depending on setup and teardown time for first "chunk" in a sequence to reach cache and be transferred to a user?
Let's say that an average video is 500MB nowadays. Be it a show, a short movie, a long HD music video on youtube, or a sport event on the olympics. Let's say that 1000 thousand people are watching the Olympic games. 500 GB * 1000 people = That's 500 GB of traffic. Let's convert GB to Gb (multiply by 8) and we're talking 400 Tb. So.. The title of this article means there are about 1000 people who watched ONLY one even…
Let's say that an average video is 500MB nowadays. Be it a show, a short movie, a long HD music video on youtube, or a sport event on the olympics. Let's say that 1000 thousand people are watching the Olympic games. 500 GB * 1000 people = That's 500 GB of traffic. Let's convert GB to Gb (multiply by 8) and we're talking 400 Tb. So.. The title of this article means there are about 1000 people who watched ONLY one even…
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I dunno, I found video of Usain Bolt's 2016 100m in less than a minute of looking around on nbcolympics.com. Though I'd have to imagine that that content is geofiltered, since AFAIK NBC only has streaming rights within the US. NBC paid the IOC something absurd like $12B for exclusive US media rights for the games through 2032. Territorial broadcast rights agreements are a huge source of funding for the IOC. It's hard…
I completely skipped watching the Olympics in large part because of NBC which is terrible. So, I have some doubt that 12B is optimal for the IOC and it clearly sucks for the rest of US.