Re:Netflix Downloads
by logicallee on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @11:39AM
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Thanks. Are you saying you could "stream" a 50 minute episode in 3 minutes even before this announcement?
Your second statement (about torrent sites) implies that everyone was already "downloading" content and NetFlix's servers were happy to serve the streams as a single very fast download without regard to how long it should takes clients to consume that (i.e. no throttling) - is this correct?
Re:Netflix Downloads
by izacus on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @11:49AM
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Yeah, at the end of the day, the player is also downloading and caching chunks. Usually faster than playback as well - precaching ahead so line fluctuations don't make your video stutter.
Your second statement (about torrent sites) implies that everyone was already "downloading" content and NetFlix's servers were happy to serve the streams as a single very fast download without regard to how long it should takes clients to consume that (i.e. no throttling) - is this correct?