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Streaming Glitches Delay Massively Hyped Mayweather-McGregor Boxing Match (cnet.com)
"After initial indications the main event would commence at 11:15 p.m ET, it didn't get started until nearly one hour later," reports Variety.
An anonymous reader quotes CNET:
Saturday's much hyped fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and UFC champion Conor McGregor drew fans from all walks of life, even those who'd never typically watch a standard boxing match. But when some of those fans settled in to watch the spectacle, beverage and snacks in hand, they found themselves in a world of hurt. Watching the fight wasn't cheap (nearly $100 on pay-per-view), so naturally, those who had technical issues as fight time neared -- on whatever platform -- were fighting mad. At 6:28 p.m. PT, as the undercard matches preceding the event aired, the UFC admitted on Twitter it was having technical issues with its Fight Pass streaming service due to the overwhelming interest in the bout.
ESPN confirms that the much-hyped event was "delayed due to pay-per-view outages."
ESPN confirms that the much-hyped event was "delayed due to pay-per-view outages."
if you had dierctv same price for higher bit rate and it can serve all customers at the same time.
Who fucking cares.
I wanna see two buffoons beat the shit out of each other all I have to do is look outside.
And it's free.
And gone with Pied Piper.
I saw a couple ads for this actually. How the hell is this one hour of TV worth 10 months of Netflix? The fight is fake anyway... I just don't get it.
Also if you had bothered to Pirate if from the source, there was no delay whatsoever.
I demand a return to real bloodsport, where grievances are settled on the sands of the Arena, with the blessings of the Emperor and Almighty Iupiter, as our forefathers did.
This will surely improve our lives, strengthening us so we no longer fear death, and demonstrating to our enemies how mighty we are.
is creimer against a cheeseburger.
Perhaps, but DirecTV requires you pay for a shitload of channels that you probably don't won't, so they are a no go for anybody with an ounce of brains.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
If you can put up with the kid running OBS trying to get subscriptions tabbing out of the stream every so often to splash "SUBSCRIBE" across the screen and 15fps at 320x240 it wasn't 1/2 bad. Course he'll get shutdown by morning for copyright violation.
Pay per view for this fight in america was over $100. seats at the arena went for more than five thousand dollars, and ringside was nearly $250,000. this fight was hyped for more than six months. content providers had metrics, they had every chance in the world to bolster their networks and increase server count. They did not, because from the get go this fight has been a test to see exactly how magnificently a handful of promoters and media moguls can fleece the average customer. You'll likely never see a refund for your 'online ticket.' as of right now, the fightpass servers are barely online with much of the page content timing out or flat out not connecting at all.
Now, from experience, when my fightpass connection glitched out after the second round I was angry enough to put my laptop through a fucking wall. But after some diligent searching I found pirate streams that were just as good, if not better quality, than the $100 show I paid to see. These streams remained consistently reliable throughout the entire fight, and im sure the torrents of the fight are going to be consistently high quality as well.
the industry needs to learn from this. the 'customers as an endless cash cow' model of Hollywood media is exactly what drove cable, CD music, and the theater movie experience into the fucking ground. Screw these streams up badly enough, screw over paying customers frequently enough, and the internet will quit caring about your streaming content entirely.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Mayweather won, but it went 10 rounds and was by the referee calling it.
I was overseas and wanted to watch the Superbowl. Hurray for drinking beer at 7:30am Monday morning! Tried and tried to use the legitimate NFL.com streaming to watch the game. It just would not work. I clicked submit and then it either timed out or went to a website error.
I went to myp2p.eu and got the stream from there. Steady, reliable, and it even got the commercials which the NFL.com stream would have lacked. Superbowl is the one time a year I actually want to watch the commercials. Once again, the pirates provided a better service than the corporations.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I really hate it when my fight didnâ(TM)t get streamed on time.
No need to pirate or have some provider. You people are morons. All of you.
Complaining about Shows You Don't Watch
"Because guess what? You might not know everything about a genre you refuse to listen to."
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I've found that as long as you present ass, white people will allow you to get away with anything.
White people always require us to present our asses.
white people be trippin
Rule #2: ?
Rule #3: Profit!
Trump owns Vegas and required that ass presental.
Vegas is racist, and they required him to submit his ass like that before they dishonestly ended the fight and gave it to him. McGregor was beating him, but a couple of good punches was all of the excuse the racists needed to give the fight to the negroid that submitted to them. Obviously that negroid lost\ and lost hard.
Bit that negroid seemed to enjoy it. I guess I would to given how much he was paid.
Good point. McGregor was just owning that black guy, but the first time that black guy got a couple of good hits, Vegas ordered the fight stopped. The bias is obvious. McGregor didn't even go down but was declared the loser to protect profits.
That Irishman never even went down, but Vegas betters decided he lost.
Except on this case when they gave the fight to the loser. McGregor was beating the hell out of that other guy.
The ref ended the fight before it was over in order to protect Los Vegas profits. Mayweather lost this one, but the refs stopped it before it was too obvious.
Mayweather obviously lost but the ref stopped it before he went down.
He lost but the ref gave it to him.
I think he did that more times than that so those whites will be very happy that they gave the fight to him.
Giving away the win to the black guy was good. I just wish they didn't decide to make it so obvious. He didn't even knock down the white guy.
Notice how after he presented his ass enough times that he was given the win.
He had to in order to be given the win.
A bunch of us tried to legitimately pay, UFC app, PSN, Sky, the works, we tried every avenue possible for several hours to give our money to someone and no platform would let us, so we ended up having to pirate the stream.
The kicker was the stream froze during the last round and we missed the knockout, when we came back we had a frozen screen and had to check reddit to see who had won!
All in all, pretty shitty.
what the attraction is of watching one man hit another ? People wail when terrorists drive lorries into crowds but then cheer when someone smashes his fist into another man's face. I don't understand ?
Netflix gives me a whole bunch of crap I don't want too...so I guess it's an even match!
If only they'd used middle out compression...
This. Never going down is a great but doesn't matter if the ref was told to give it to the other guy.
I couldn't care less about this over-hyped fight. As far as I can tell, the two fighters don't even play the same sport. Then somehow it was agreed that one of the guys would cross over and take on the other guy, at that other guy's game. The whole thing doesn't even make any sense - unless and until you add money to the equation, of course.
This. The ref was crooked and gave the fight away.
Slightly off topic, I didn't watch this stream in particular. Why do sports streams always start glitching and lagging just as the action culminates? Like, just before there's a goal in football (soccer), and even when the time is running out in chess! Surely, not a lot of people are tuning in just then. If it's a variable bitrate stream, requiring more bandwidth for the fast action, that still doesn't explain it -- surely their streaming platform should be able to manage the overall bandwidth. Is it just a cognitive bias that it seems that way, or can anyone explain this for me?
Ah, I had also managed to completely ignore it.
Let me check..
Mayweather wins.. I guess that means something to someone (and if you didnt want to know, I dont give a shit)
And my wallet is not $100 lighter, which is the best outcome.
Yes, got to keep the rabble entertained somehow, apparently.
It is fascinating how this story has triggered all the classist buffoons and brought them out on parade.
Except it's $8 versus $100.
Plus DirectTV craps out in bad weather.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
The cost of delaying the event is pissing off advertisers and it's also pissing off people who scheduled time for it, with fees for the delay and and cancellations from customers
There is nothing better than the feeling of inflicting insult, pain and injury on another with one's own body. No need for a rock, stick, sword, gun, explosive. Just mastery of the human body. I was most at peace when breaking the jaw of someone who mouthed off to me, or watching a mugger writhe in pain after administering well placed blows to the kidney area.
Is it just a cognitive bias
Yup.
Try to think about the times the stream glitches when you don't give a shit about what's going on.
You can't really, and that's because of the bias.
I just makes you mad when the quality drops or the stream freezes when you're actually paying attention.
At what point will ISPs open up multicasting to the home? I'm sure the organizers used MC to get to distribution servers but everything from there to the end users is still unicast. I was working during the fight and our multicast to the edge modulator in the headend did just fine. I'm sure they'll point out that events like the Super Bowl will tax their edge routers but what about an event like this? I'm sure it was popular, but still a small fraction of users.
"Well, good luck finding a judge that doesn't run a bestiality site."
Everybody knows McGregor cant box. It would have been interesting if it had been MMA.
What a joke...oh well, suckers born every day I guess. SPORTS...waste of time & money, but, at least it ain't my money.