[opendtv] Re: Wired: The Internet's clearly not ready to stream big TV events
- From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 19:40:55 -0400
Craig wrote:
It's still early in the transition to delivery of
TV to the masses via the Internet, and there are still many growing pains.
As I often ask Craig, when he waves arms, "compared with what?" What Craig
should be asking himself, if he had read the article carefully enough, is how
would a typical cable system, or for that matter even DBS, respond to 100s of
thousands of new requests for service, immediately before some sporting event.
The effect would be that many of those requests would not be met. Not enough
manpower to meet every demand, especially in high density markets.
What Craig should also ask himself is how the cable and DBS MVPDs would respond
to these hundreds of thousands bailing out of the subscription, after the event.
Connecting to a service over the Internet is typically really, really simple.
And even for Sling, in this one difficult time, most people got perfectly fine
service. So even this example of growing pains needs to be put in perspective.
"Compared with what?"
Bert
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