Netflix may have gotten 60 million households to watch their fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, but they did not reveal how many of those households in frustration as they endured buffering issues while trying to watch the heavily promoted clash. the streamer to get their act together before they attempt to stream two marquee NFL games on Christmas Day. “People are pissed,” he told his Sirius XM listeners Monday.
“You fuck people’s football, there is hell to pay. You better not. I don’t know how this stuff works, but you’ve got to make sure it works.
” As Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy wrote on X: “Im in the classic torture chamber where I cant tell if my internet keeps going out or whether # is just constantly buffering and unwatchable for everybody,” earlier in the night before later adding, “So the reports are in. #netflix wasnt ready for this. This is unwatchable.
” Netflix, meanwhile, issued a rather glib response to subscriber frustration, telling fans on Instagram, “The boxing mega-event dominated social media, shattered records, and even had our buffering systems on the ropes.” Which quite the spin: It’s only because we were that our live viewing system didn’t quite work. While reported that CTO Elizabeth Stone wrote in an internal email to employees, “This unprecedented scale created many technical challenges, which the launch team tackled brilliantly by prioritizing stability of the stream for the majority of viewers.
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