The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by jimminy on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:34PM (#16360749)

Netflix and Amazon rarely show ads, normally just a short 30 second recommendation at that.

All streaming in HD in about 5 seconds.

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by Semaphor on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:36PM (#16360774)

I think he wasn't talking about legal streaming sites as that was kinda the point of my original post.

> All streaming in HD in about 5 seconds.

Yeah, until it's not. I mean sure, 20 seconds of low quality is not the end of the world. But there is no reason it should be that crappy. And they are competing against easy and free, having only "moral high ground" as the competitive advantage. So at the very least, they shouldn't be worse.

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by danieldk on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:58PM (#16360978)

Yeah, until it's not. I mean sure, 20 seconds of low quality is not the end of the world.

I literally never have 20 seconds of low quality on Netflix et al. It is sharp HD from the moment that I start streaming (UnityMedia with 200 MBit/s downstream).

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by Semaphor on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:06PM (#16361045)

200 Mbit down as well and I had 20s one time yesterday with Amazon Prime Video binging Bosch

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by TaylorAlexander on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:22PM (#16361718)

“A short 30 second recommendation” sounds like an ad to me.

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