455 Tb of live streaming were transferred during the Olympic Games Rio 2016

Post by mrb » Wed, Aug 24, 2016, 3:11 AM UTC

edpichler wrote: post #61

liquidise wrote: post #2

> 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…

Meanwhile, CBC of Canada broadcasted all olympic games for free. They had peak of 27 simultaneous channels transmitting competitions with excellent quality. Anyone with a Canadian IP could watch, I personally used a VPN because I don't have TV cable here in Brazil.

Post by mrb » Wed, Aug 24, 2016, 3:19 AM UTC

bdhess wrote: post #7

liquidise wrote: post #2

> 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…

Post by grokavi » Wed, Aug 24, 2016, 3:58 AM UTC

caidh wrote: post #74

mrb wrote: post #71

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So did the BBC. They broadcasted for free multiple channels of Olympic events to any and all British IP addresses. I also used a VPN because I don't have cable TV. I have no idea why Olympics events are not freely broadcasted in the US.

Because the US does not have well funded public television as the UK (the BBC) or Canada (the CBC) do. In the US, sadly, it is to the highest bidder that the broadcast & streaming rights go to. NBC paid $1.23 Billion for rights to the 2016 Summer Olympics, an astronomical amount. They only provided streaming to those with cable packages above what is considered 'basic'.

Post by ryanlol » Wed, Aug 24, 2016, 4:32 AM UTC

truth_sentinell wrote: post #76

ryanlol wrote: post #48

Wow, that's not very much at all. In comparison, I've been using a bit over 600TB with a budget of less than $500/month. With double the budget I could easily transfer olympic amounts of data! Really puts to perspective how incredibly accessible bandwidth pricing is these days.

Do you have a insert a dumb celebrity fan page? Or what do you do to consume that bandwidth?

Post by rhizome » Wed, Aug 24, 2016, 5:06 AM UTC

dv_dt wrote: post #56

js2 wrote: post #30

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Too late now, but you could have purchased a Playstation Vue subscription for one month ($30, one week free trial) which would have given you full access to the NBC Sports app and nbcolympics.com. You can sign up on the web and don't need a Playstation. That's what I did since I don't have a TV subscription and it worked well. The NBC iOS and tvOS app was pretty awful in forcing ads, but the Roku app let you skip mos…

I wish I knew that before, tried a Sling Tv sub, and that didn't give one access to nbcolympics streaming content. I kept it for the (poor) live NBC streaming of the Olympics, but cancelled it after. Having to watch shows at a fixed time is crazy in the modern age. I watched much fewer sports and the advertisers probably lost out on quite a bit of exposure too.