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Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
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I don't spend much time streaming, but I got a glimpse of the Amazon Prime catalog yesterday, and was surprised at how many titles on the front page were movies I'd actually watch. Reminded me of Netflix a dozen years ago.
Amazon Prime isn't so great. Lots of for rent/purchase content or content with ads these days. And they end up repeating slots of content in all the rows in their UI, so I end up seeing the same suggestions everywhere rather than much that's new (other than first party productions). To me they're basically padding their front page. But honestly that's most of the major streaming platforms these days. I recently cance…
I recently found a lil dvd rental place in my city. It’s a non-profit, they also do archivals and stuff.
It’s pretty much a two-story townhouse packed head to toe with DVDs (lots of blu rays!)
You don’t realize how limited the streaming collection is until you’re back in a movie store, looking through thousands and thousands of movies you would never find otherwise.
Since I found it, I’ve started doing movie night every week with my friends. It’s such an absolute blast. We go to the store, each pick out a random movie that looks good (or bad, in a good way) or just different.
All of a sudden, I love movies again!!
Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
#203It's not lagging for me. It crashed and not coming back.
Update: Switched to the app on my phone and so far so good.
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#204I wonder if there will be any long term reputational repercussions for Netflix because of this. Amongst SWEs, Netflix is known for hiring the best people and their streaming service normally seems very solid. Other streaming services have definitely caught up a bit and are much more reliable then in the early days, but my impression still has always been that Netflix is a step above the rest technically. This sure do…
Has Netflix ever live streamed something before? People on reddit are reporting that if you back up the play marker by about 3 minutes the lag goes away. They've got a handle on streaming things when they have a day in advance to encode it into different formats and push it to regional CDNs. But I can't recall them ever live streaming something. Definitely nothing this hyped.
Love is blind reunion which had major problems. Chris Rock comedy which only had a few issues. The Netflix Cup which had issues.
Re: Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
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Amazon Prime isn't so great. Lots of for rent/purchase content or content with ads these days. And they end up repeating slots of content in all the rows in their UI, so I end up seeing the same suggestions everywhere rather than much that's new (other than first party productions). To me they're basically padding their front page. But honestly that's most of the major streaming platforms these days. I recently cance…
I recently found a lil dvd rental place in my city. It’s a non-profit, they also do archivals and stuff. It’s pretty much a two-story townhouse packed head to toe with DVDs (lots of blu rays!) You don’t realize how limited the streaming collection is until you’re back in a movie store, looking through thousands and thousands of movies you would never find otherwise. Since I found it, I’ve started doing movie night ev…
That's an excellent option. I think it'd be remiss not to mention local libraries. Of course, your mileage may vary, but the ones I've gone to do seem to have adequate selections. I just don't often make time to go there and browse like I would have at traditional video rental places back in the day.
Heck, mine even have some video games; though from when I've checked they're usually pretty back-reserved.
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#207Netflix is good only on streaming ready made content, not live streaming, but; 1. Netflix is a 300B company, this isn't a resources issue. 2. This isn't the first time they have done live streaming at this scale either. They already have prior failure experience, you expect the 2nd time to be better, if not perfect. 3. There were plenty of time between first massive live streaming to second. Meaning plenty of time to…
Yea, the issue here isn't just that they're having issues, it's that they're having the same issues they've had before.
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#209I wonder if there will be any long term reputational repercussions for Netflix because of this. Amongst SWEs, Netflix is known for hiring the best people and their streaming service normally seems very solid. Other streaming services have definitely caught up a bit and are much more reliable then in the early days, but my impression still has always been that Netflix is a step above the rest technically. This sure do…
> their streaming service normally seems very solid Not trying to downplay their complexity, but last I heard Netflix is splitting the shows in small data chunks and just serves them as static files. Live streaming is a different beast
That's how streaming (usually) works. The main URL is a playlist of transport stream files and it just downloads them in the background as you go.
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#210Not enough chaos monkey engineering.