Netflix is going to surge in value after this.
Bandwidth is an easy solution to fix.
Proof of concept they can get massive numbers for a horrible product.
I was hoping for a worse fate for Netflix but I think your take is spot on. It was clearly buffering so all I did was log back on when I could. It brought me to the 8pm start and I fast forwarded to about 3 minutes before live and the problem was gone.
Sure my 16 yr old with his phone in his hand hated it but looking at that circle 25% was too much for me to take every five minutes.
Actually, I think that could qualify as a form of torture if it was a UConn game I was streaming.
But once the Paul - Tyson fight started I think they had it figured out and I actually got closer than three minutes to live but if it was a buffering issue even live my guess is that there was a delay. They were just trying to figure out how to set the servers and they never really could do it until they had a stable viewer base which happened by round 8 of the women’s fight. Which for me was the highlight of the night.
Taylor uses her head as a third more lethal hand……..