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> The author doesn’t want ads but then doesn’t want to pay anything? How would anyone expect a video site to stream 4K video for free then? I guess I expected
by flukus 7y ago
> The author doesn’t want ads but then doesn’t want to pay anything? How would anyone expect a video site to stream 4K video for free then?
I guess I expected free/cheap hosting to scale enough for video by now. Little geocities sites used to only have a a banner ad and many others had free web hosting with their ISP or purchased some web space. We never evolved a video equivalent of this, probably mostly because youtube exists and could take billions in losses for years. There are distributed alternatives but I don't think any of them are quite like cgi-bin for video.
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- sp332 7y agoStreaming video is freakin' expensive. You have to pay upfront to transcode the video into many formats and bitrates, or pay more per stream to do it in real-time. Also pay for storage for all the video formats, and video takes a ton of bandwidth when you're paying by the gigabyte. (You could maybe run a video site with the quality and device-compatibility of a early-90's video site for free.)