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Has Netflix done live video on anything approaching this scale? I don't doubt that they have the capabilities to put a live streaming infrastructure together fo
by pdubs 13y ago
Has Netflix done live video on anything approaching this scale? I don't doubt that they have the capabilities to put a live streaming infrastructure together for something like this, but DTV's out starting next year and there's a lot of work to get done in that time. That would be a lot of risk.
- consultant23522 13y agoI don't know about Netflix but even Youtube has trouble with high profile live events.
- minikites 13y agoNBC put the Super Bowl online and it seemed to work okay as I recall. I imagine weekly Sunday games get less traffic. Does Sunday Ticket include RedZone? That would be the real selling point.
- the_watcher 13y agoRedZone is key to anyone buying Sunday ticket. You could sell RZC without Sunday Ticket though (I'd buy it).
- mmanfrin 13y agoAt its peak, Netflix accounts for something like a full third of internet traffic in the US (almost double Youtube's haul).
- Sargos 13y agoNone of that is live streaming. Netflix can only do that via cached videos at ISPs and other tricks. Live steaming is a whole new ballgame and something Netflix has never tried. YouTube has live streamed many events such as Google IO and Presidential debates. It would be interesting to see if Netflix's architecture is even capable of supporting NFL Sunday Ticket.