I'm guessing that US viewers will be out in the cold for at least a portion of the games, while Canadian viewers (watching on CTV/TSN - as will I, thanks to certain options I have) will be able to watch without a problem.
On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 3:56 PM 'Doug Elrod' via World News Now Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote: > When I hear about football games being streamed (such as on Christmas, > tomorrow), > and the fact that apparently a Thursday night game took 30% of the > Internet bandwidth > (however that is measured :-)), I wonder if somehow the Multicast Protocol > (which I > read about decades ago) is not being used. From what I remember, it's > like shouting > to everyone (say UDP), rather than requiring handshaking with everyone > individually > (like TCP). > > I guess if you want to personalize ads you need the extra bandwidth, but > it seems > incredibly wasteful, IMHO. > > -Doug Elrod ([email protected]) > waiting for someone to reinvent "Television" ;-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "World News Now Discussion List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/2094388218.3736762.1735073722833%40mail.yahoo.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/CAPPfaD3fKkJ2n18svQuFqw_am3Xwcd%2B4i3KQgmeG7K_iFs%3DVbQ%40mail.gmail.com.
