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Re:Ask HN: Video recommendation platform as a way to compete... by terafo on Thursday September 24, 2020 @11:23AM (#24579458)
>Videos can be large -- a 10 minute 4k video can be nearly 5gb in size.

Not on YouTube, with the way YouTube compresses video it's usually somewhere around 10 gigabytes for an hour of 4k@60 video.

>Then you need to bandwidth to actually serve all that data. Ideally you have servers geolocated close to the user.

I don't see any serious benefits from decreased latency, if we are talking about video streaming.

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Re:Ask HN: Video recommendation platform as a way to compete... by asutekku on Thursday September 24, 2020 @11:29AM (#24579524)
Most users won't watch the video, if they need to wait for too long before it begins.
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Re:Ask HN: Video recommendation platform as a way to compete... by terafo on Thursday September 24, 2020 @12:04PM (#24579998)
Even if user is on the other side of the planet latency is somewhere near 500ms. It isn't that much.
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Re:Ask HN: Video recommendation platform as a way to compete... by nik736 on Friday September 25, 2020 @06:05AM (#24588304)
Latency isn't important for video streaming, peering is.
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