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barkerja
on March 30, 2018
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It wouldn't be a wise decision; what if they one day decide to enter into live programming (sports, news, etc.), where latency does matter?
jessaustin
on March 30, 2018
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Latency doesn't really matter for that either. Seeing a football play 5 seconds too late doesn't hurt anyone.
imtringued
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And existing streaming services already have a latency of several seconds. Twitch for example can have a delay from 5 to 20 seconds or more. Unless you're using WebRTC or similar technologies you won't see latencies below a second.
NullPrefix
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>Seeing a football play 5 seconds too late doesn't hurt anyone. Only if the audience do not know about it.
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