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

Why do they want to get into the live business? It doesn't seem to synergize with their infrastructure. Sending the same stream in real time to numerous people just isn't the same task as letting people stream optimized artifacts that are prepositioned at the edge of the network.

They want to break into sports because it’s such a big business and if you do sports you need to be able to stream live.

Most PPV is what, $50-$70? So subscribing to Netflix for $20 or whatever per month sounds like a bargain for anyone who is interested and not already a customer. Then assume some large percentage doesn’t cancel either because they forgot, or because they started watching a show and then decided to keep paying.

Not sure why this is being downvoted. I can see your point - it’s much harder to this live but a lot of their cdn infra can be reused.

Live is the only thing that won’t be commodified entirely. “Anyone” can pump out stream-when-you-want TV shows. Live events are generally exclusive, unpredictable, and cultural moments .

Because its the one area traditional networks have the advantage in

The marginal cost to add a viewer to broadcast sports is zero! That's what I am getting at. I know why someone would want this business, I just don't see what aspect of Netflix's existing business made them think they'd be good at it.