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Still do. While just over 1 million watched the last BBC england game on iplayer (before it crashed), at least 20 million were watching on BBC One. Everything
by isostatic 8y ago
Still do. While just over 1 million watched the last BBC england game on iplayer (before it crashed), at least 20 million were watching on BBC One.
Everything else makes perfect sense to broadcast, but live -- especially zero-latency live -- over unicast http calls? Ridiculous. A shame the BBC's multicast trials never took off.
- djhworld 8y ago> While just over 1 million watched the last BBC england game on iplayer (before it crashed), at 3.8 million according to https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jul/08/england-world-cup-win-sweden-watched-by-20m-bbc-tv-viewers https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jul/08/england-world-...
- isostatic 8y agoThat's 3.8 total, not concurrently I.e. people tried iplayer, saw how crap the experience was (in this niche case), then found a TV or pub with TV to watch it on.
- djhworld 8y agoAh concurrents. In this case the stream went down in the last 5 minutes of the match, which is still bad, but not as bad as YouTube TV earlier this week! https://twitter.com/YouTubeTV/status/1017121393857556485 https://twitter.com/YouTubeTV/status/1017121393857556485
- wayanon 8y agoOr found the pub was using iPlayer too..
- blntechie 8y agoIn India , we had a 9.7 million concurrent streams record recently for a cricket game with a service called Hotstar. The stream at least for me was ahead of Cable TV, not sure if they delayed the TV broadcast to account for live streaming delay to make it appear live.