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Title: CBS’s Grammy stream failures are another cautionary tale for live online video Post by: HCK on February 17, 2016, 09:00:16 am CBS’s Grammy stream failures are another cautionary tale for live online video
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Despite all the good that streaming video has done for television (http://www.techhive.com/column/cord-cutter-confidential/), it continues to be finicky for large-scale, live events.</p><p> Last night’s Grammy Awards were just the latest example. As several (http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/grammy-awards-live-stream-failure-cbs-all-access-1201706742/) other (http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2016/02/15/viewers-complain-grammy-digital-feed/80431790/) sites (http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/15/11009296/cbs-all-access-grammys-stream-crash) have documented, complaints about the CBS All Access live stream (http://www.techhive.com/article/3033432/data-center-cloud/the-cord-cutters-guide-to-the-2016-grammy-awards.html) were flooding onto Twitter even before the event began. Instead of getting the award show, users got blank screens and endlessly spinning wheels.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3033438/data-center-cloud/cbs-s-grammy-stream-failures-are-another-cautionary-tale-for-live-online-video.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: CBS’s Grammy stream failures are another cautionary tale for live online video (http://www.macworld.com/article/3033438/data-center-cloud/cbs-s-grammy-stream-failures-are-another-cautionary-tale-for-live-online-video.html#tk.rss_all) |