[HN Gopher] Netflix NFL streaming quality issues
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Netflix NFL streaming quality issues
Author : tatersolid
Score : 11 points
Date : 2025-12-25 20:34 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| tatersolid wrote:
| I can confirm terrible video quality on 1Gb/s Xfinity connection
| in Chicago area. The NFL streaming picture quality looks like
| RealPlayer on a 56kbps modem from 1998. The ball becomes
| invisible as soon as it is passed or kicked! Blocky and ghosting
| artifacts. Not a network issue, every other site/app working
| great, it's simply Netflix falling over during a live event
| _again_.
| avidiax wrote:
| Live streaming is surprisingly a much different problem than pre-
| recorded streaming. It's no surprise that Netflix has had trouble
| with it in the past, though I'd expect them to have resolved
| their issues by now.
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| I wrote a detailed comment about it before. [1]
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| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42161376
| asmnzxklopqw wrote:
| I remember working in performance for a company that was building
| video delivery systems. That was about 10 years ago, but I still
| remember the celebration of 80Gbps, that was when we could
| deliver live HD quality events to about 5000 downstream customers
| using one such device. That was the hardware capacity of the
| platform that was used at that point.
|
| I guess that technology evolved since then, but even so serving
| 1M customers shouldn't need more than 200 instances. My wild
| guess is that Netflix either didn't autoscale or that the
| rebalancing/anycast mechanism didn't work properly.
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