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by bobdvb 2y ago
Regular ISDN is 64k and then 128k bonded BRI. You could go to E1/PRI to get 2048kbps for €€€€. In North America ISDN was 56k due to the slower T1 it was sent in and framing.
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by bobdvb 2y ago
There were TVs made that you could upgrade the processor on, they were more expensive and never took off. People want cheap, they'll forgo the better product if they can get one that's on sale cheap. Consumer choice says that an
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by bobdvb 2y ago
SIM cards are doing relatively basic transactional crypto functions, not processing many Mbps of data in real time.
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by bobdvb 2y ago
There was a study a long time back which showed that users are (approx) * 1/3rd "Pay Never, hardcore pirate." * 1/3rd "Not invested either way." * 1/3rd "Could be a legal subscriber."
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by bobdvb 2y ago
We would maybe rent two films a week, they probably cost £5 for the pair. That's £20 per month for 8 movies? Not sure that's better value than Netflix.
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by bobdvb 2y ago
See, you're confused because you think that the media player is owned by Netflix. The browser gives you a certain level of control on computers, although you have to deal with the oddities of Safari, but when you go to smart TVs it&#x2
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by bobdvb 2y ago
Even Amazon doesn't have it perfected for Live. Live sports and VOD movies/TV are very different beasts.
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by bobdvb 2y ago
I am 2, I absolutely will get argued with by people who think they know better. I'm also not going to criticise my peers because they could recognise me and I might want to work with them one day.
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by bobdvb 2y ago
Yeah, try dealing with many frontends with mixed HTTP and HTTPS, it's a nightmare and won't always work. Additionally, you want security on content delivery for revenue protection reasons. The way you've massively over simpli
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by bobdvb 2y ago
Live streams have different buffering logic to video on demand. Customers watching sports will get very upset if there is a long buffer, but for a VOD playback you don't care how big the buffer is. Segment sizes are short for live and
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by bobdvb 2y ago
Netflix has done massive amounts of work on BSD to improve it's network throughput, that's part of them enabling their file delivery from their CDN appliances. https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/
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by bobdvb 2y ago
That's why you put your services behind a CDN, even if it's not cacheable traffic. Then you can rate limit what's coming to you. With the cloud, that DDoS can bankrupt you by causing you unconstrained bills instead.
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by bobdvb 2y ago
You're never getting 1G 100% of the time, you're getting a target of 1G and statistically if you do a speed test you probably won't be doing that at the same time as everyone else. A little knowledge can be dangerous, that&#x
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by bobdvb 2y ago
Almost nothing supports HDMI Ethernet, it is the use of extra signal path on the cable to provide an ethernet link between two devices. Both devices have to support the extra signals and one of them has to be able to route, so it's bas
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by bobdvb 2y ago
That's true, although the reality is that the capacity is much more limited in many providers local infrastructure than you'd like to think. Those 1000 users will only get 10G at best, and remember that both in Cable and FTTH the
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by bobdvb 2y ago
Nvidia's Moat is CUDA, it's become so entrenched in development stacks that people have inertia in moving to anything else. I've been in situations where I've wanted to use other GPUs and everyone's said to be &quot
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by bobdvb 2y ago
It's really not. The issue is that Disney and others pay per TB/PB delivered. So if they want to deliver double the bandwidth they better make money doing it. Disney+ is barely breakeven and a year ago was burning nearly $600m in
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by bobdvb 2y ago
I worked for a major UK ISP for a while, about 1% of customers fully utilise the connectivity they get. One of the bigger issues for us, was getting enough backhaul capacity from the wholesaler (BT OpenReach) at smaller regional locations.
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by bobdvb 2y ago
I'm using HaLow WiFi to connect two houses in a mountainous region. I'm only using it for a link about 800m distant, but it's done what PtP links couldn't do reliably. I only get 13-14Mbps but it's enough for the li
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by bobdvb 2y ago
There's a big stand-off between ISPs and CDNs over payments. Some ISPs insist they want payments to peer and others agree that it's mutually beneficial, but even where the ISPs stamp their feet, they rarely win the argument. Netfl
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by bobdvb 2y ago
I've heard that Premium viewers account for a better income for content creators in comparison to ad-supported viewers. That's enough for me to be happy to pay.
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by bobdvb 2y ago
I absolutely wouldn't expect there to be notes against an API key. Heck, in many companies I have encountered that they don't even know who is using API keys they've issued to third parties, especially over generations of sys
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by bobdvb 2y ago
Many 'dubious-legal IPTV services' will use stolen or trial AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, etc accounts for their CDN and when the account gets locked they just spring up another account. So the cloud providers tend to be the one's
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by bobdvb 2y ago
I am married to a Greek and spend part of my year working from a very rural Greek village in the mountains (more goats than people). I also have travelled a fair bit around Greece, e.g. North South, East and west, from Crete to Thessaloniki
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by bobdvb 2y ago
Streaming isn't a particularly profitable business, if you aim to run a sustainable business then you need to optimise. Added to that, you can comfortably overload an ISP's peering and send infrastructure costs rocketing. Practica
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by bobdvb 2y ago
Encoding is terribly computationally expensive. You wouldn't want to do it at scale for every viewer, the RoI would be poor. What you can do, is splice in pre-encoded ads and that works okay if done correctly. It's also practicall
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by bobdvb 2y ago
FYI, I work for a big sports streaming company and we are doing "mABR" or multicast adaptive bitrate with some ISPs because it really is worth it. You get a significant improvement in playback stats and the ISP gets massive traffi
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by bobdvb 2y ago
What I will say in response to that is that I empathise with people who have no physical ability to access content. If the rightsholder doesn't have it available in a territory and/or no distributor is willing to carry it? Who am
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by bobdvb 2y ago
I believe Amazon and Google have the ability to buy single episodes or single series, or rather I'd say I've seen it in the past.
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by bobdvb 2y ago
Absolutely, I have to review contracts on almost a weekly basis, all of which say what I have to do and it's usually waaaaay worse than anyone here would want. I spend way too much time pushing back on over zealous requirements.

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