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Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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Post by Ekaros »

kortilla wrote: post #247
vitus wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I would guess YouTube, being built on google's infrastructure , has powerful enough edge nodes that they stream one video stream to each edge location and the edges transcode for the clients. Ha, no, our edge nodes don't have anywhere near enough spare CPU to do transcoding on the fly. We have our own issues with livestreaming, but our system's developed differently over the past 15 years compared to Netflix's. Whi…

It also helps that youtube serves shit tier quality videos more gracefully. Everyone is used to the step down to pixel-world on youtube to the point where they don’t complain much.

And decent part of these users are on free tier, so they are not paying for it. That alone gives you some level of forgiveness. At least I am not paying anything for this experience.

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Post by rascul »

whoknowsidont wrote: post #167
josh2600 wrote: post #4

FWIW, works fine for me.

Please don't make these types of comments, they mean nothing and they serve no purpose.

Why is it acceptable to share that it doesn't work but not acceptable to share that it does?

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Post by rascul »

dghughes wrote: post #82
Justin_K wrote: post #6

I love how I can come to HN to instantly find out if it’s Netflix or my WiFi.

Wifi wifi or wifi as in your ISP Internet connection? Sp many people now call an Internet connection "wifi". Anyway, network cable is the only way to go!

I have the wifis with the geebees.

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Post by bsimpson »

spike021 wrote: post #156
bsimpson wrote: post #42

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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've given Netflix a lot more money than I've gotten value out of. I've had an account for ~15y and only really use it for airplanes unless there's a specific thing I'm excited to watch.

I'm in the same boat where as soon as they make it too hard to share, I'll probably cancel it. I think the main reason their sharing crackdown hasn't been a problem so far is that I use it so seldomly, it thinks the "main" address is my parents, which makes it easy for me to pass the "are you traveling" 2FA on my own phone when I do want to watch something.

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Post by bsimpson »

chamomeal wrote: post #202
spike021 wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I was in high school in the early 00s, and going to the movies was such a big part of my life. Now, I never even know what's out.

I suspect life stage is a factor, but it does feel like there are many classes of entertainment (cinema and standup come to mind) that don't resonate like they used to.

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Post by Ekaros »

vitus wrote: post #225
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #68

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Is cable and broadcast better for live TV? No scaling issues. Doesn't matter how many people tune in.

It's fundamentally different, for sure. Most third-party internet-based streaming solutions are overlaid on top of a point-to-point network, while broadcast is one-to-many, and even cable tends to use multicast within the cable provider's network. You have potentially different problems, e.g. limited bandwidth / spectrum. If, say, there are multiple games going on at the same time, you can only watch whichever feed t…

On cable(terrestrial is entirely different) even the bandwidth or spectrum is less limiting for broadcasting multiple games. Hard thing is the other parts of production, like cameras, live-directing and live commentary. Adding new channels is less challenging than actual producing content at expected level there.

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Post by taeric »

oaththrowaway wrote: post #79
freditup wrote: post #8

I 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…

I used to work for a live streaming platform once. We always joked that VOD (Netflix) was "easy" compared to live.

Not really a joke, though? VOD has obvious methods to cheat a bit. Redundancy abounds and you can even network shape for costs. Could probably get even better compression for clear reasons.

Live, not so much. One source that you have to fanout from and absolutely no way to get cheap redundancy. Right?

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