MultiChoice will stream Fifa World Cup games in 4K on Showmax Pro

So just a guess, it is going to be a huge mess as it will be the first attempt for a full audience.
 
Going to guess that it's a, bitrate failure, if it gets past trying to test it for a decently sized event.
 
Trust multichoice to stand with a schithole

I bet they've banned Ukraine TV as well
 
Those servers are going to struggle lol, buffer every 10 seconds.
 
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They can hardly stream in 1080p (just had the cricket fail for no reason), how on earth do they think they'll be doing it in 4K!
 
Doubt it'll work on the Xbox app. If it works at all. Why aren't they trialing it with PSL games?
 
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They can hardly stream in 1080p (just had the cricket fail for no reason), how on earth do they think they'll be doing it in 4K!
HEVC (H.265) instead of H.264.
1080p H.264 for sports is probably 6-8Mbps, 4k HEVC is 8-12Mbps, but again, without knowing bitrate, this is kind of useless.

I still want to know why Dstv is not doing an AV1 hardware decoder explorer and trying to get people to swap for it, that would save them a lot of bandwidth and royalties.
 
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HEVC (H.265) instead of H.264.
1080p H.264 for sports is probably 6-8Mbps, 4k HEVC is 8-12Mbps, but again, without knowing bitrate, this is kind of useless.

I still want to know why Dstv is not doing an AV1 hardware decoder explorer and trying to get people to swap for it, that would save them a lot of bandwidth and royalties.
Because you pay for a hardware device that only does DStv. And it's over 2 years. Then it's pure profit for DStv.
That's why people want a proper streaming service for LESS than what they're paying now.
 
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