I don’t quite understand the difference in the technology. An example I’m thinking of is that if you’re streaming a TV program online that has a ton of simultaneous viewership (say, the Super Bowl), you’re liable to run into bandwidth issues—buffering, freezes, pixelated video, etcetera, as the servers are taxed with keeping up with the demand of all the viewers.
The same thing doesn’t happen with cable tv, even though it is also a digital signal coming over a wire. No matter how many people are watching, the cable tv provider is able to put out perfect quality video to everyone with no buffer time.
What is the difference in the tech that allows cable tv to do this but not online streaming video?
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Is not a lot of modern “cable TV” now IP-based, though? So more resembles streaming point-to-point, not broadcast. So then perhaps the answer is that since your TV provider controls the “network” (IP over coax), and has the “servers” that do the streaming, they can be more reliable than streaming coming over other networks.
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