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MaynardKrebs
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MaynardKrebs

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Up Schitt's Creek bandwidth-wise RSN (real soon now)

All indie ISP's are going to be Schitt-ing a brick if UBB rates aren't significantly lowered/eliminated.

»www.wired.com/2015/01/ev ··· ust-yet/

Netflix recommends 25Mbps download speeds for streaming 4K video, while the service’s 1080p streams require about 3Mbps. If your streaming setup buffers and stutters with the average HD video, 4K will be a struggle. According to Akamai’s most recent State of the Internet report, just 19 percent of U.S. homes had “4K-ready” connection speeds of 15Mbps or greater. According to Ookla’s Net Index, the mean broadband download speed in the US is 32Mbps, but there are major speed variances from ISP to ISP and state to state.

The good news is you may not need to upgrade your service to get smooth 4K streaming. Beamr, a post-encoding video-optimization service, is working with movie studios and streaming providers to chop 4K video bitrates by 40 percent. Beamr claims it can whittle 4K video down to a 9.5Mbps stream, making it easier for networks to handle the load. It works with HEVC-encoded video, and the company demoed its bitrate-shaving work at CES. The technology will be used in a new 4K partnership with M-Go—a service that’s only be available on Samsung’s 4K sets.

Beamr claims its optimization software is smarter than an encoder—it’s applied after a video is encoded using HEVC—as it removes bits where they won’t be missed: Blurred backgrounds, smooth textures, and parts of a scene that don’t need 4K detail. According to CTO Dror Gill, even experts can’t see a difference between the bitrate optimized video and the source files. That’s why Beamr is working with studios to install the optimization software as part of their digital-delivery workflow instead of content aggregators.

digiwth
join:2012-09-21

digiwth

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Soon? Streaming in Canada is already taking it's toll during prime time usage.

And for now Netflix's 4K is limited to a few 4k-ready smart TV's, so it's not like many people are pulling that down at the moment.
MaynardKrebs
We did it. We heaved Steve. Yipee.
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join:2009-06-17

MaynardKrebs

Premium Member

They will through this year.

It's a great thing for indumbents.....
- introduce their own streaming services, Crave & Showmi
- underprice Netflix
- tie access to Crave/Showmi to a cable TV subscription
- raise internet rates/lower caps
- rely on CRTC sclerosis to undermine indie ISP's