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Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

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Re: Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

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Post by pfooti »

OnlineGladiator wrote: post #210
jamroom wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hulu on my Apple TV is excellent - I find the interface to be much less "noisy" than Netflix and I like the large back catalog on a lot shows. Honestly I subscribed for one show (forget what it was now) but found I liked it a lot more than I thought I would.

I'm not talking about the interface. I mean it literally won't load or crashes regularly. I have fiber internet and no issues with Netflix or any other streaming service. I'm glad it works for you, but it's pretty awful for me.

yeah, the same happens for me - i have a relatively recent vizio tv, and the hulu app is terrible - video skips and freezes or the whole app crashes. I've taken to just using my mediapc to run hulu in a chrome tab instead. Both devices are hooked to the same ethernet hub, and other things like prime video and netflix run just fine on the vizio.

Re: Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

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Post by markdown »

testplzignore wrote: post #78
MentallyRetired wrote: post #3

I don't think anyone on hackernews would be surprised by this. The scale they have to operate at is absolutely insane. To scale flawlessly on day 1 is a big ask of any development team.

Disney+ is arguably the largest software release of all time in terms of scale. My estimate is that they will be handling 1-2% of all internet traffic by the end of the week. I can't think of a launch of this scale that has gone smoothly. Modern console releases, AAA games with online multiplayer, Pokemon Go, healthcare.gov... all cases where organizations literally have billions in cash. It does not matter how much…

> I can't think of a launch of this scale

Well that's the problem isn't it. They chose a scale they couldn't handle ergo, they fucked up.

A more sane approach would be to start by launching in smaller countries and then slowly scale up.

Re: Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

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Post by markdown »

dewey wrote: post #143
testplzignore wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disney+ is arguably the largest software release of all time in terms of scale. My estimate is that they will be handling 1-2% of all internet traffic by the end of the week. I can't think of a launch of this scale that has gone smoothly. Modern console releases, AAA games with online multiplayer, Pokemon Go, healthcare.gov... all cases where organizations literally have billions in cash. It does not matter how much…

To be exact they didn't go from 0 to 100 though as it was already live in the Netherlands for a month.

So 5 to 100, instead of adding on one or two small countries a day as their infrastructure allowed.

Re: Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

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Post by chrisseaton »

mike_hock wrote: post #228
cwkoss wrote: post #227

Disney is responsible for vast lobbying efforts to criminalize access to culture around intellectual property. Make the moral choice and pirate their content instead of giving them your money to fund further overreach.

> Make the moral choice and pirate their content instead of giving them your money to fund further overreach. ... if you absolutely must have their crap in the first place.

Why make it nasty like that? If you’ve got a moral objection why do you need to criticise them personally like that as well? I don’t understand why people feel the need to be so aggressive.

Re: Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

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Post by edoceo »

cwkoss wrote: post #227

Disney is responsible for vast lobbying efforts to criminalize access to culture around intellectual property. Make the moral choice and pirate their content instead of giving them your money to fund further overreach.

Wouldn't the moral choice be to just not watch? Isn't piracy stealing? Morally: don't buy it, don't steal it and also don't view it. Reward other content providers and reduce the relevance of Disney.

Re: Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

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Post by sturgill »

jonwachob91 wrote: post #147
cookiecaper wrote: post #29

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Indeed. Last night I was telling my wife that it'll be real interesting to see how well the launch goes and that I'd expect them to have continuous issues for the first 3-6 months (which may be Netflix's only prayer). Video is hard to get right, with quirks across many combinations of platform/device/OS/browser version/video card/playback resolution/format features, and it consumes around 90% of total internet traffi…

>>> The logical conclusion, of course, is that Disney should've just bought Netflix Why buy Netflix when you could get a similarly qualified team and infrastructure by buying Hulu? Oh wait... Disney already owns Hulu... Whoops. What about ESPN. ESPN has a really good streaming product. Oh wait... Disney already owns that one too... Disney didn't need to buy Netflix, they just needed to use the resources they already…

They own Bamtech (came out of MLB and eventually powered ESPN as well as WWE and other properties).

I was having issues this morning but just with home and category pages. The “featured” links to content worked fine, but the index type pages I’m assuming were just getting hammered.

Re: Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

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Post by [deleted] »

markdown wrote: post #232
testplzignore wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disney+ is arguably the largest software release of all time in terms of scale. My estimate is that they will be handling 1-2% of all internet traffic by the end of the week. I can't think of a launch of this scale that has gone smoothly. Modern console releases, AAA games with online multiplayer, Pokemon Go, healthcare.gov... all cases where organizations literally have billions in cash. It does not matter how much…

> I can't think of a launch of this scale Well that's the problem isn't it. They chose a scale they couldn't handle ergo, they fucked up. A more sane approach would be to start by launching in smaller countries and then slowly scale up.

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Re: Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

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Post by cwkoss »

mike_hock wrote: post #228
cwkoss wrote: post #227

Disney is responsible for vast lobbying efforts to criminalize access to culture around intellectual property. Make the moral choice and pirate their content instead of giving them your money to fund further overreach.

> Make the moral choice and pirate their content instead of giving them your money to fund further overreach. ... if you absolutely must have their crap in the first place.

Tangential, but does anyone know of good hardware to function as a standalone HDMI output video server? I've been wanting to play with making a 'plug and play' box that I could give to kids/grandparents in my life who don't have the technical skills to pirate for themselves, preloaded with content I think is good and they'd enjoy.

What is the cheapest hardware that can output arbitrary 1080p video over HDMI at a good frame-rate? Bonus points for having a good chunk of integrated storage and/or bundled with remote control. I bought one of those cheap tiny PCs but the video card wasn't up to the task.

Re: Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

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Post by cwkoss »

edoceo wrote: post #235
cwkoss wrote: post #227

Disney is responsible for vast lobbying efforts to criminalize access to culture around intellectual property. Make the moral choice and pirate their content instead of giving them your money to fund further overreach.

Wouldn't the moral choice be to just not watch? Isn't piracy stealing? Morally: don't buy it, don't steal it and also don't view it. Reward other content providers and reduce the relevance of Disney.

Piracy isn't stealing, that's intellectual property lobbyist propaganda.

I would happily download a car: zero cost reproduction of useful things makes society as a whole richer. The content industry needs to figure out a new business model to adapt to the information age, and the longer people pay for digital content the more funds these outdated relics will have for legislating a moat around their "property". I'd much prefer a kickstarter or patreon-like model where superfans could fund and watch and participate in development.

Re: Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

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Post by wolco »

baddox wrote: post #81
bluedevil2k wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Buying Netflix? I think Netflix is going to start a steady decline as the content owners continually pull their stuff from Netflix for their own streaming services. The Netflix original stuff, let's be honest, is hit or miss, with most of the movies being a hard miss.

I don't have much of a problem with Netflix content, but it's the price that just doesn't make sense. They charge extra for UHD, and that premium plan costs more than HBO (which is probably still the king of content quality, though with a crappy 1080p stream) and over twice as much as Disney+ and Apple TV+ (which don't charge extra for UHD).

You can't live on hbo alone. I spent a summer and went through everything I could find. I have no desire to go back for 10 years. They have some great shows but are not creating enough to make netflix output.
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