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> The cost of actually delivering the video was so tiny it didn't matter. To put it another way, you could watch for the entire month continuously and it would
by JoshuaRLi 8y ago
> The cost of actually delivering the video was so tiny it didn't matter. To put it another way, you could watch for the entire month continuously and it would make no difference to the bottom line.
Truly amazing times we live in!
- phreeza 8y agoHasn't the same been true for premium cable channels for a long time?
- elcomet 8y agoI think cable tv is much simpler to deliver as you only have a few channels. Netflix has tens of thousands of videos so they can't just broadcast everything (I don't think cable TV is broadcasting all their channels either, I don't know how they do it in practice).
- datenwolf 8y ago> (I don't think cable TV is broadcasting all their channels either, I don't know how they do it in practice) Actually they do. Just a whole lot of MPEG-PS, several of which multiplexed into a single frequency channel (sometime called transponder channel, even in the context of cable, although the term comes from satcom), and then on the order of hundreds of frequency channels between 100MHz to 1000MHz (roughly speaking, it depends on the regulatory domain, frequency allocations, and doesn't stretch all the way to the limits of the range).
- elcomet 8y agoThanks for the insight !