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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 thinkingkong »

intelVISA wrote: post #509
_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…

Not sure why Netflix is held in high regard - this proves they're just as much clowns as the other 'big players' in the circus.

They arent clowns at all. Ita a totally different engineering problem and you cant just spin up live streaming capacity on demand. The entire system end to end isnt optimized for live streams yet.

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Post by ctvo »

_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…

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

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Post by aucisson_masque »

Honestly you didn't miss much, every (real) boxing fan thought of this as a disgrace and a shame when announced. putting a 58 year old Tyson against a crackhead filled with steroids (Jake Paul) ? Either case it would have been a shame on Jake Paul for even getting in the ring with such an old boxer.

In boxing you are old by 32 or maybe 35 year old for heavy weight, and everything goes down very very fast.

End of rant.

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Post by jrpelkonen »

kortilla wrote: post #248
thefreeman wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that’s totally unacceptable for live sports which people are able to bet on

I have bad news for you. This is how it works already for “live” sports

Correct. Here are some latency numbers from the last SuperBowl: https://www.phenixrts.com/resource/super-bowl-2024

Even the best latency is dozens of seconds behind live action.

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

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Post by mensetmanusman »

ctvo wrote: post #512
_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…

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That’s uncharitable. Proposing reasons for institutional failure and discussing those can be ways for humans to improve communication and said challenges.

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

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Post by iLoveOncall »

sgarland wrote: post #410
iLoveOncall wrote: post #369

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a ridiculous statement. PrimeVideo is the leader in terms of sports events streaming over internet and it is composed of hundreds of microservices. Live streaming is just much harder than streaming, and it takes a years of work and a huge headcount to get something good.

Prime famously undid some amount of their microservices recently because it couldn’t keep up, and was hideously expensive.

It was a single team for a very specific use case.

To be clear when I said that PrimeVideo is composed of hundreds of microservices, I actually meant that it's composed of hundreds of services, themselves composed, more often than not, of multiple microservices.

Depending on your definition of a microservice, my team alone owns dozens.

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Post by yodon »

npilk wrote: post #469
nightowl_games wrote: post #407

How is this story not on the front page anymore? 375 comments. Seems like a big story to me.

I believe HN's algorithm tends to relatively downrank stories with a high comment-to-upvote ratio, because they are more often flamewars on divisive topics.

Another major algorithmic down-ranker is vote wars on comments.

If lots of people are upvoting and downvoting the same comments, that's treated as a signal the topic is contentious and people are likely to start behaving badly.

HN is very clear they prioritize good behavior as the long term goal, and they are as a result comfortable having contentious topics fall in the ranking even if everyone involved in the discussion feels the topic is important.

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

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Post by _giorgio_ »

horns4lyfe wrote: post #397
_giorgio_ wrote: post #356

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand why nobody here believes you. There's no reason to doubt what you say, probably people identify with the mistreated one. Why?

Because the idea that all the engineers that work at his large company are morons is absurd. Anyone in that situation that believes that and even more, states it, is just making their own character flaws apparent.

Let me think about it...

All the engineers in MY company are morons.

They're just bureucrats.

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