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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by isostatic on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:09PM (#17526253)
Still do. While just over 1 million watched the last BBC england game on iplayer (before it crashed), at least 20 million were watching on BBC One.

Everything else makes perfect sense to broadcast, but live -- especially zero-latency live -- over unicast http calls? Ridiculous. A shame the BBC's multicast trials never took off.

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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by blntechie on Friday July 13, 2018 @10:45PM (#17528511)
In India , we had a 9.7 million concurrent streams record recently for a cricket game with a service called Hotstar. The stream at least for me was ahead of Cable TV, not sure if they delayed the TV broadcast to account for live streaming delay to make it appear live.
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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by djhworld on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:11PM (#17526278)
> While just over 1 million watched the last BBC england game on iplayer (before it crashed), at

3.8 million according to https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jul/08/england-world-...

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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by isostatic on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:15PM (#17526308)
That's 3.8 total, not concurrently

I.e. people tried iplayer, saw how crap the experience was (in this niche case), then found a TV or pub with TV to watch it on.

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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by djhworld on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:23PM (#17526366)
Ah concurrents.

In this case the stream went down in the last 5 minutes of the match, which is still bad, but not as bad as YouTube TV earlier this week!

https://twitter.com/YouTubeTV/status/1017121393857556485

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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by wayanon on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:04PM (#17527225)
Or found the pub was using iPlayer too..
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