Learning the hard way that VOD is not cheap, unless you’re Netflix who installs smaller servers inside many ISP and cell carrier offices to reduce bandwidth cost
Completely agree, I think one great thing that Netflix has done over the other competitors is that they’re a tech company at heart, not a content company.
As such, they thought about how to optimize cost and quality of delivery much more than HBO (and others) did/do. This is both a good thing for their bottom line, but also for consumers. I find Netflix loads significantly faster than other competitors, even Prime video which has the backbone of AWS behind it!
Sure, at the end of the day the most compelling content wins, but after that, quality of service is super important.
Netflix is over engineered to a crazy extent, which makes it an incredibly good user experience. They’re often pointed to as an example of resiliency and reliability in the tech circles I’m in, and it proves very true. There’s almost no cases where I can think of Netflix being down, let alone down because of issues with their own platform.
Learning the hard way that VOD is not cheap, unless you’re Netflix who installs smaller servers inside many ISP and cell carrier offices to reduce bandwidth cost
Completely agree, I think one great thing that Netflix has done over the other competitors is that they’re a tech company at heart, not a content company.
As such, they thought about how to optimize cost and quality of delivery much more than HBO (and others) did/do. This is both a good thing for their bottom line, but also for consumers. I find Netflix loads significantly faster than other competitors, even Prime video which has the backbone of AWS behind it!
Sure, at the end of the day the most compelling content wins, but after that, quality of service is super important.
Netflix is over engineered to a crazy extent, which makes it an incredibly good user experience. They’re often pointed to as an example of resiliency and reliability in the tech circles I’m in, and it proves very true. There’s almost no cases where I can think of Netflix being down, let alone down because of issues with their own platform.
Being a bit pedantic, but if it leads to the desired UX I wouldn’t call it over-engineering
I can honestly say all of the big services have been reliable and of similar quality. Max, Peacock, Hulu, Prime, Discovery, Netflix, AppleTV.
Never a problem. The one exception was Game of Thrones era HBO.