I was watching a soccer match and this struck me: is the live high-quality broadcast stored anywhere or is it just streamed? I suppose it needs to be stored somewhere to make highlight reels, but wouldn’t this storage take up TBs of space and therefore not be economical?
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Most broadcast networks save everything. Yes, it’s TBs of space but compared to the budget required to make the broadcast in the first place a stack of TB storage drives, especially at scale, is peanuts. It would be certainly be less than 1% of the overall budget.
YouTube is storing far more than all the sporting events that have ever happened and they can pay for that just off ad revenue.
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