[opendtv] Re: YouTube, Amazon Prime forgo streaming quality to relieve

  • From: Jeroen Stessen <jeroen.h.stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 15:20:27 +0100

Bonjour mon ami de longtemps !

On 2020-03-22 13:47, Olivier Houot wrote:

I am still on terrestrial broadcast TV, and all channels seem to be HDTV

That is the power of broadcast, you have your own reserved channel and you don't have to give up any bandwidth in times of troubles, except perhaps for the occasional emergency broadcast on all channels.

The streaming providers (Netflix, Amazon prime, Disney+, Hulu, ..) all use unicast over the internet (video over IP) which means that for every client they must send a separate stream. This is extremely wasteful of bandwidth, so if they have more clients than budgeted for then they must reduce bandwidth. I assume that this is mostly a limitation of their distributed data servers, not of the internet per se.

Watching via VPN doubles the data, then also the VPNs become a bottleneck, but who would be informed enough to blame the VPN provider ?
Vive la broadcast.  :-)

BTW I have a huge collection of movies on Blu-ray, DVD, harddisk, for when the Apocalypse comes. We all have different hoarding needs.

Salut, Jeroen





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