FANS SAT DOWN Sunday night, I was ready to watch a live Love is Blind gathering and find out if Tiffany and Brett really are “forever,” as Netflix’s Twitter bio said.
But the streaming giant broke down during its big moment and couldn’t show the drama to its fans in real time. After about 90 minutes, Netflix decided to call it quits. Instead, they decided to record the meeting and put it online on Monday afternoon.
Netflix said in a tweet, “To everyone who stayed up late, got up early, and gave up their Sunday afternoon, we are so sorry that the Love is Blind Live Reunion did not go as planned.” “We’re making it right now, and it will be on Netflix as soon as we can.
Again, I’m sorry and thank you.” Netflix did not answer when asked to explain why its livestreaming was having problems. Netflix changed TV, which had a pretty good thing going when it came to live broadcasts.
However, Netflix recently brought live TV back by showing a live Chris Rock stand-up special to its users in March. People think that Netflix’s move into live programming is an attempt to set itself apart from other video streaming services.
This is especially true since the company has taken unpopular steps to increase revenue, such as promising to stop people from sharing their passwords.
But live streaming is harder than broadcasting, and Netflix isn’t the first streaming service to have problems, especially when it comes to material that people want to watch.
John Kendall, a media delivery analyst at the consulting company Omdia, says, “It’s so popular that it’s a failure by success.” Netflix needs to stand out by making and promoting material that people can’t wait to see, like a hit reunion show.
But the problem might have happened because too many people tried to use the tool at the same time. Kendall says, “Netflix just ran into this problem, but they are not the first and won’t be the last.”
Live TV looks easy on network TV, but streamers fall behind because they use a different method. Broadcasting lets one person send a message to many people. Think of this as a TV or radio signal being sent out, and then a lot of people tuning in by turning on their TVs and changing the channel.
But streaming is a set of unicasts, which means that a signal is sent to a single device when it is asked for. Kendall says that makes it more likely that something will go wrong while making the material, sending it to servers, or giving it to users.
More people watching means that there needs to be more internet. And if streamers don’t guess demand well enough, they can run into trouble.
Kendall says that this is especially hard for Netflix because it only has one way to share its content: through an app on a TV, computer, phone, or tablet. People watch competitors like HBO through apps and through their cable subscriptions.
This gives the channel more ways to get its programming to people during busy times. Livestreams of other big events have been bad for a long time. There have been problems with trying to stream the Super Bowl live, and it was hard to find things to watch for the 2021 Summer Olympics.
World Cup streamers have been trying to cut down on delay, which is the time between when something happens and when it shows up on your TV screen. delay has been longer on streaming than on broadcasting in the past.
Streamers send information to your device in chunks, which your device then reads. It’s important to cut down on delay. Michael Inouye, an analyst at the technology intelligence firm ABI Research, says, “It’s no longer a question of does it work and can it support the number of people?” “It’s, well, what’s the latency now?”
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Livestreaming is likely to grow, and there is a lot of interest in sports in particular. In 2022, Amazon only showed NFL games on Thursday nights.
And starting later this year, the NFL’s Sunday Ticket package, which lets people pay and watch games that aren’t being played in their area, will be available on YouTube.
As more people start to use these services, any latency problems will be especially annoying. This is especially true if, for example, fans find out about goals on Twitter before they see them on their screens. It also affects how quickly you can bet on sports.
With one live event that went well and one that didn’t, Netflix needs to show that it can regularly put on live events.
The streamer already has plans to livestream the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2024, and it’s possible that it will do the same for other events in the future. But it will have to step up its game if it wants to fight in the streaming wars.
