Re:How Facebook encodes videos
by henvic on Monday April 26, 2021 @08:40AM
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Your numbers are off. Netflix has more than 36.000 hours of content.
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Re:How Facebook encodes videos
by viciousvoxel on Monday April 26, 2021 @04:04PM
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I don't know the reliability of these sources, but according to one article[1], as of 1 year ago, US Netflix had ~5.8K titles, totaling 36K hours of content. Another more recent source[2] claims that worldwide, Netflix has ~15K titles, so assuming the same distribution of runtimes, it would be closer to 93K hours of content. So, while you're correct, it's still the same order of magnitude.
sources:
[1] https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/how-long-would-it-take...
[2] https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/netflix-statist...
Care to cite a source?
Back-of-the-envelope calculation: a slacker suffering from insomnia watching 5 streams of Netflix at once × 20 hours/day × 365 days non-stop would otherwise watch the whole catalog in less than a year.
Convinced?
Not really.
If we unpack your calculation to slightly more typical human behaviour: Watching 1 stream × 10 hours/day × 365 days non-stop, one person would need 10 years to watch the whole catalog.
Doesn't seem unreasonable to me.