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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The big difference is that satellite internet delivers you the content you want when you ask for it. That means the stream of data you’re requesting is different to the stream everyone else is requesting, and you all have to share a limited amount of bandwidth (the total data that can be sent at a time).
Satellite TV, on the other hand, is always broadcasting the content (multiple channels) to everyone and whenever you pick a channel you can immediately start playing from the point the stream is at. You lose the flexibility of getting exactly what you want when you want it but gain higher quality and reliability because all of the satellite’s bandwidth is spent transmitting the content.
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