Why can satellite television service easily play high quality movies/shows, while satellite internet service buffers videos constantly even in low quality?
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TV signal is transmitted continiously. the satelite doesn’t care who is watching and who is not. it’s told “broadcast TV over here” and it does.
When you watch something on the internet, then you need to ask that satelite to broadcast that specific video for you to watch, since you are the only person who is currently watching that video (at the same time, even if someone watches the same video, its unlikely its the same milisecond, so the satelite broadcasts that separetely for everyone)
so basically TV video is just one thing broadcasted for everyone
internet video is being broadcasted especially for you, but since many peoples use the same satelite, it has to split it’s resources to many different devices
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