I’ve never known cable providers of failures to broadcast live TV in its
history. MASH (not live) amongst many others had 70-100+ million viewers, many
shows had 80%+ of the entire nation viewing something on its network without
issue. I’ve never seen buffering on a Superbowl show. Why do streaming services
suffer compared to cable television when too many people watch at the same time?
What’s the technical difficulty of a network that has improved over time but
can’t keep up with numbers from decades ago for live television? I hate ad based
cable television but never had issues with it growing up. Why can’t current
‘tech’ meet the same needs we seemed to have solved long ago? Just curious about
what changed in data transmission that made it more difficult for the majority
of people to watch the same thing at the same time.
This is a great explanation. Thinking of the question @ad_on_is@lemm.ee asked the other day of How could we convince Reddit subs to move over to Lemmy?, this is the sort of post that is good to share and draw people in to Lemmy.