> And maybe it's just me, but I always found broadcast to be pretty reliable (or at least consistently unreliable in ways I could predict) - online broadcasts h

> And maybe it's just me, but I always found broadcast to be pretty reliable (or at least consistently unreliable in ways I could predict) - online broadcasts have a tendency to fail/buffer/etc. at totally random intervals. Do you live anywhere that gets regular tropical storms? Broadcast towers are lightning magnets and they regularly go out, usually not for long but I've seen them be down overnight more than once. They also used to degrade a fair bit in electrical storms in the pre digital TV age. It wasn't that long ago that a neighbor mowing the lawn meant that the TV signal would be awful/out. What we need is for our internet and power systems to be more distributed.