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

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

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Post by mikekchar »

maxxxxx wrote: post #59
aschampion wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Watching via the BBC is a completely different experience: complete on-demand archives almost every event, time bookmarks for groups/bouts/matches, no annoying commentators unless the event was also being broadcast on a channel, no missing most of the event because we need to watch a manufactured interest piece on the US athlete, and you can go 30 seconds without hearing the name Phelps. Watching NBC's broadcast, in…

I hate those sappy interest pieces! Just show me the event. You are right. They seem to think that the event is not interesting.

I have historically avoided watching the Olympics because I like to watch sports, not drama ;-). Having said that, NHK in Japan did a pretty good job, I have to say. I watched the entirety of the women's rugby 7's semis and finals. Great sports that I wouldn't ordinarily get to watch, and no Japanese participation at all.

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

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Post by akerro »

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…

London 2012:

He said: "You probably wouldn't be walking in with a Pepsi T-shirt because Coca Cola are our sponsors."

Interviewer Evan Davis asked Lord Coe if he would be able to enter the Olympic Park wearing Nike trainers, to which Lord Coe replied: "Let's put some reality in this. You probably would be able to walk through with Nike trainers."

Lord Coe defended the ban on 'objects or clothing bearing political statements or overt commercial identification' outlined in official guidelines for spectators.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9414178/Londo...

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

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Post by Gmo »

mrb wrote: post #71
edpichler wrote: post #61

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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.

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.

Same in France, probably most of Europe actually

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

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Post by seanp2k2 »

tmptmp wrote: post #44
cylinder wrote: post #13

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This was maddening as well. I had to go through nbcsports app and dig deep to find "Michael Phelps wins gold after thrilling final!" Instead of "200m X stroke final"

Such apps are menace. It seems that these apps cannot even do anything better than simple string search. They should learn a thing: Let Google do the search for them not their app. A joke for the people who know little bit of programming: Hope they are not using strcmp to find the video file with title "Michael Phelps wins gold after thrilling final!" :( edit: a typo

Probably untuned MySQL full text search, possibly Solr with all the default settings looking only at titles.

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

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Post by paulasmuth »

None of these numbers add up.

If 30 million hours were watched with an average bandwidth of 2Mbps, the total data volume should be 25,749TB (or close to 26PB) and not 400TB.

Also, if the peak bandwidth was 600Gpbs, that peak could not have lasted very long. With that much bandwidth the claimed 400TB of total transferred data would be used up in roughly 90 minutes.

So either the total data transferred or the number of hours watched figure is off by a factor of at least 60x.

[ I figured "400Tb" was supposed to mean 400 terrabytes. If it's actually 400 terrabits, the numbers are off by one magnitude more ]

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

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Post by digi_owl »

wlesieutre wrote: post #64
foota wrote: post #55

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Would you go on a tangent with me? Monopoly is completely in-line with capitalism, consumer choice is only guaranteed in a happy capitalist state.

A lot of the things people like to attribute to capitalism are really aspects of a perfect market . More off a convenient fiction for framing Econ 101 discussions on than something that actually actually exists. In some cases useful as a first order approximation. It's the economics equivalent of frictionless spherical cows in a vacuum.

Except that while said cow is absurd at the face of it, economics 101 is passed off as gospel.

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

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Post by jaredklewis »

ppereira wrote: post #68
jaredklewis wrote: post #63

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I feel the word monopoly gets way overused. "There is only one company with a train from Town A to Town B! It's a monopoly!" Probably not, as if there are other viable ways to travel (car, bus, plane, boat), then there are substitutes. The olympics are no different. As a form of entertainment, there are countless substitutes. If the Olympics are boring, people won't watch. Even as a form of international cooperation,…

Just like public utilities don't have a monopoly on the provision of power, because, hey, every home-owner can buy a diesel generator. With the level of substitution you are describing, you've made the word monopoly meaningless. The regional broadcasters for the Olympics have a monopoly because of their economic power in setting the price for their good. Other than circumventing copyright or using a VPN, there is no…

That's like saying HBO has a monopoly because only they can broadcast game of thrones.

If a product must have a perfectly identical substitute to not be a monopoly, then more or less all companies have monopolies. I feel that position is untenable.

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

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Post by edpichler »

Gmo wrote: post #93
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.

Same in France, probably most of Europe actually

In German it was broadcasted for free too.
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