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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by therealdrag0 on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:01PM (#31129295)
How do you know? I’m a highly paid engineer who is oncall on a SAAS, it’s been a wild ride. It’s expensive to keep this crap running. But a DVD burner and fedex? That sounds cheap and simple to me.
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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by jdmichal on Friday April 22, 2022 @09:43PM (#31130583)
They don't even use burners at that scale, they use replicators. Takes seconds to stamp a DVD. Here's a place in California that charges as low as $.075 each per copy, and this is low volume pricing...

http://discreplicator.com/Price.html

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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by srdone on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:44PM (#31130121)
There are companies that provide on-demand pricing for just the steaming component (edgecast for example). Then just throw up a DynamoDB table and some simple apis in lambda and you have a pretty cheap (relatively) way to deliver streamed content.
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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by therealdrag0 on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:48PM (#31130157)
Good point but that’s just MVP; to maintain their competitive edge they have to maintain a lot more features on top of that.
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