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cryptozeus ◴[] No.42157120[source]
Everyone here talking like this something unique netflix had to deal with. Hotstar live streamed india va Pakistan cricket match with zero issues with all time high live viewership ever in the history of live telecast. Why would viewers paying $20 month want to think about their technical issues, they dropped the ball pure and simple. Tech already exists for this, it’s been done before even by espn, nothing new here.
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al_borland ◴[] No.42157893[source]
The Independent reports 35m viewers of that cricket match [0].

Rolling Stone reported 120m for Tyson and Paul on Netflix [1].

These are very different numbers. 120m is Super Bowl territory. Could Hotstar handle 3-4 of those cricket matches at the same time without issue?

[0] https://www.the-independent.com/sport/cricket/india-pakistan...

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jake-paul-...

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dilyevsky ◴[] No.42158595[source]
Majority of superbowl viewers watch it on cable. Streaming gets fewer than 10M concurrents
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SoftTalker ◴[] No.42160477[source]
Do people even have cable TV anymore? I have internet from my "cable" company but I don't have the "cable" connected to anything but the modem. Everything I watch is streamed. The only thing connected to my TV is a Roku.
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reaperducer ◴[] No.42161054[source]
Do people even have cable TV anymore?

Six seconds on the Google shows 58 million households in the United States. So, roughly 145,000,000 people.

You make the tech bubble mistake of believing that high speed internet is as ubiquitous as coax.

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1. johnnyanmac ◴[] No.42167003[source]
>Six seconds on the Google

I see 68.7 million people, not households. There's my 6 seconds.

Maybe 10 minutes would give me a better truth.

>You make the tech bubble mistake of believing that high speed internet is as ubiquitous as coax.

Yes, and no. Given that the top US cities contain about 8% of the population, you can cover a surprising amount of large country with a surprisingly small amount of area coverage. So it's not as straightforward as "people in SF are in a bubble".