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Enter Captain Netflix! With the cable networks improving to compete with the online content providers (hulu, hboGo, etc), Streaming in-flight could be a Busines

Enter Captain Netflix! With the cable networks improving to compete with the online content providers (hulu, hboGo, etc), Streaming in-flight could be a Business Class feature.

kalleboo 12y ago
How feasible would it be to put a netflix cache box on each airplane? What capacity is required?
- intev 12y ago
  Netflix costs 3 GB/Hr for HD[1]. Considering a movie is about 2 hrs, thats 6 GB/Movie. Say they have a "limited" library of 300 movies thats 1800 GB. Considering a short tv show is about 20 mins, thats 1GB/ Episode. Say they have the latest 1000 episodes of all the latest shows, thats 1000 GB. Considering a long tb show is about 40 mins, thats 2Gb/Episode. Say they have the latest 1000 episodes of all the latest shows thats 2000 GB. This brings the total to 4800 GB, rounded up to about 5 TB. If they have complete copy of everything that's 10TB. 4 TB costs about $200 [2]. If you got 3, you spend $800. Even if you triple capacity, you're only spending $1800. Obviously there are other costs involved but I think it's definitely plausible and affordable. Probably also much cheaper to negotiate with Netflix on a per seat basis rather than content distributors separately. Only disadvantage is that you wont get "currently in theaters" movies which a lot of international airlines have. [1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87 [2] http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007603%20600003489%20600217643&IsNodeId=1&name=4TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=...
  - cousin_it 12y ago
    Can you stream different HD videos to 100 passengers at once from one storage device? (I don't know much about the performance of modern storage devices.)
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- cweiss 12y ago
  I know at least Virgin already has an extensive on-board digital content delivery system so there's already a provider that's done a lot more than Netflix in terms of aircraft VOD infrastructure. Plus, since the airline controls the content, they get to reap the advertising rewards.

Enter Captain Netflix! With the cable networks improving to compete with the online content providers (hulu, hboGo, etc), Streaming in-flight could be a Business Class feature.

kalleboo 12y ago

How feasible would it be to put a netflix cache box on each airplane? What capacity is required?

intev 12y ago
Netflix costs 3 GB/Hr for HD[1]. Considering a movie is about 2 hrs, thats 6 GB/Movie. Say they have a "limited" library of 300 movies thats 1800 GB. Considering a short tv show is about 20 mins, thats 1GB/ Episode. Say they have the latest 1000 episodes of all the latest shows, thats 1000 GB. Considering a long tb show is about 40 mins, thats 2Gb/Episode. Say they have the latest 1000 episodes of all the latest shows thats 2000 GB. This brings the total to 4800 GB, rounded up to about 5 TB. If they have complete copy of everything that's 10TB. 4 TB costs about $200 [2]. If you got 3, you spend $800. Even if you triple capacity, you're only spending $1800. Obviously there are other costs involved but I think it's definitely plausible and affordable. Probably also much cheaper to negotiate with Netflix on a per seat basis rather than content distributors separately. Only disadvantage is that you wont get "currently in theaters" movies which a lot of international airlines have. [1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87 [2] http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007603%20600003489%20600217643&IsNodeId=1&name=4TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=...
- cousin_it 12y ago
  Can you stream different HD videos to 100 passengers at once from one storage device? (I don't know much about the performance of modern storage devices.)
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cweiss 12y ago
I know at least Virgin already has an extensive on-board digital content delivery system so there's already a provider that's done a lot more than Netflix in terms of aircraft VOD infrastructure. Plus, since the airline controls the content, they get to reap the advertising rewards.