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Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide
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#102Non-American here. Why are cable and satellite under 2 different categories? Aren’t they the same providers, offering the same services? For example in Australia we have Foxtel, depending on where you live you will get connected to the service either by cable or with a satellite dish, so it wouldn’t make sense to put satellite and cable into different categories. Maybe in the US it’s a different situation?
Different providers typically but the same service in the end.
Thank you, yes I just did some research and I can see that there are several providers, many of them offering only one type of connection (satellite or cable). I agree with your statement "same service in the end" since the television channels on offer are mostly the same.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Different providers typically but the same service in the end.
Thank you, yes I just did some research and I can see that there are several providers, many of them offering only one type of connection (satellite or cable). I agree with your statement "same service in the end" since the television channels on offer are mostly the same.
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You'll be happy to know that the current latencies are about two orders of magnitude higher than what going at the speed of light will offer. That makes me think that we will easily see a 10x improvement in latency in 15-20 years.
Source to that? My napkin math tells me speed of light across US is ~10ms, my experience tells me latency is ~100ms (certainly not 1s), so that's only one of of magnitude.
You are not going to stream games from the west coast to the east coast.
It will be more like a data center in/near your city to your home (..say.. within a 50km radius).
Currently, that pathway isn't very well optimized and I routinely see local services having a latency of 30+ ms in the bay area.
I am suggesting this will be significantly more optimized, not how fast you can communicate over long distances.
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On Fire TV you can use the web version of Youtube in the browser (Silk or Firefox) and it works pretty well as it's formatted for the larger screen. I'm not sure if this doesn't apply to Fire Stick.
Ah, for some reason I just assumed that YouTube Premium didn't work with Firefox, which is what I use now, and you had to have the native Android App. I think the problem I had the last time I tried this had to do with the fact that I had a YouTube creator account, and Red wouldn't work with it. Anyway, now I'm putting my money where my mouth is and am happily watching ad free YouTube content (which I love dearly) on…
Don't forget about Google Music as well. Overall a pretty solid subscription package.