If Netflix can’t make live work, can anyone?
by David Pierce from The Verge - All Posts on (#6SB37)
Image by: The Verge; Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images for Netflix The Paul / Tyson fight on Friday was very popular. Netflix streamed it into more than 60 million households, which is a huge number for any TV event, much less a streaming-only one. Whether the whole thing went well, though, is another matter. The fight itself wasn't very exciting, and for a large portion of the audience it wouldn't have mattered if it was - all they could see was laggy, pixelated nothingness. Netflix is clearly bought in to live programming and sports, but is it ready to do it big?
On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge's Richard Lawler joins the show to talk through the state of sports streaming. We talk about the ups and downs of the Netflix live-streaming experiments so far, what's at stake for the company's...