Sports streaming is busted — the Super Bowl likely won’t be any different
Super Bowl LVI will be played at SoFi Stadium in LA - but it'll take crucial seconds for the livestream to reach fans who are watching over the internet instead of traditional broadcast methods. | Photo by Jevone Moore / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images There's a lot that can go wrong for cord-cutters, particularly when it comes to live sports: buffering, crashing, login issues, you name it. It's almost certain that the next big US sporting event, Super Bowl LVI, will face many of the same hiccups - and that's especially true for anyone hoping to place bets on the big game.
As cord-cutting becomes more common in households, these problems have become entirely too frequent for anyone hoping to stream a live event. Take, for example, the recent 2020 Summer Olympics Games, where even finding specific coverage was needlessly complicated, and streaming didn't work the way it was promised to.
That's a big problem for interactivity in sports streaming and bet-placing exploding with wider...