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The most retarded thing about streaming, is that it costs so much more in bandwidth and energy and hardware, like it's not even funny.
When you broadcast, everybody watch the same thing at the same time, so the infrastructure COPIES information directly in their network.
When you stream, EVERY USER REQUIRES SERVERS TO SEND DATA OF A HD OR 4K VIDEO FILE.
THIS MEANS THAT A NETFLIX SERVER MUST MULTIPLY ITS BANDWIDTH BY THE NUMBER OF USERS. IN HIGH DEFINITION.
WHY AM I YELLING?
Oh nothing, it's because the world is burning.
They can use P2P to help.
Could we define a trade-off system? Classic broadcasting can take way too long to send out a large catalog. Streaming is, as you say, a heavy resources consuming system.
So how about a combo of a box or a software that can follow a broadcast N times faster than human, and broadcast N movies/series episodes a day? The application let you pick what you'd like to get on your box/app, and then it's like classic video recording, but on steroids.
It would be like live-streaming, but at 2, 3, 10 times the normal speed. No human needs to follow that.
Of course, you still have the issue of glitches, communication interruption, but we've dealt with those for years, and there are certainly ways to indeed stream the missing parts, or use rediffusion.
You read it first here. I'm off to file for a patent and make billions (or not...)