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

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

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Post by js2 »

_fat_santa wrote: post #427

When you step back and look at the situation, it's not hard to see why Netflix dropped the ball here. Here's now I see it (not affiliated with Netflix, pure speculation): - Months ago, the "higher ups" at Netflix struck a deal to stream the fight on Netflix. The exec that signed the deal was probably over the moon because it would get Netflix into a brand new space and bring in large audience numbers. Along the way t…

> They now had to figure out how to shift their infrastructure to a whole new set of assumptions around live events

It wasn't their first live event. A previous live event had similar issues.

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

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Post by ldjkfkdsjnv »

We all know netflix was built for static content, but its still hilarious that they have thousands of engineers making 500-1M in total comp and they couldnt live stream a basic broadcast. You probably could have just run this on AWS with a CDK configuration and quota increase from amazon

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Post by immibis »

Loughla wrote: post #430
_fat_santa wrote: post #427

When you step back and look at the situation, it's not hard to see why Netflix dropped the ball here. Here's now I see it (not affiliated with Netflix, pure speculation): - Months ago, the "higher ups" at Netflix struck a deal to stream the fight on Netflix. The exec that signed the deal was probably over the moon because it would get Netflix into a brand new space and bring in large audience numbers. Along the way t…

>First off the deal that they struck was probably one they couldn't ignore If you can't provide the service you shouldn't sell it?

You've never worked in a startup have you? Or any business for that matter. You have to promise something first, then build it.

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Post by js2 »

criddell wrote: post #418

I watched on an AppleTV and the stream was rock solid. I don’t know if it’s still the case, but in the past some devices worked better than others during peak times because they used different bandwidth providers. This was the battle between Comcast and Cogent and Netflix.

> I watched on an AppleTV and the stream was rock solid.

For me it was buffering and low resolution, on the current AppleTV model, hardwired, with a 1Gbps connection from AT&T. Some streaming devices may have handled whatever issues Netflix was having better than others, but this was clearly a bigger problem than just the streaming device.

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

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Post by _fat_santa »

Loughla wrote: post #430
_fat_santa wrote: post #427

When you step back and look at the situation, it's not hard to see why Netflix dropped the ball here. Here's now I see it (not affiliated with Netflix, pure speculation): - Months ago, the "higher ups" at Netflix struck a deal to stream the fight on Netflix. The exec that signed the deal was probably over the moon because it would get Netflix into a brand new space and bring in large audience numbers. Along the way t…

>First off the deal that they struck was probably one they couldn't ignore If you can't provide the service you shouldn't sell it?

My speculation here is this was just classic SV cockiness. The team that closed this deal probably knew that they didn't have the capability but I'm sure the arguments for doing it anyways was something along the lines of: "we have the best engineers in the bay area, we can probably figure this out"
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