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06-21-2017, 09:12 PM
Akamai's biometric study confirms it: We really, really hate crappy video streaming
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Buffering… Buffering… Aaaaad… Fist. Through. Laptop. Screen. Yes, we all k**w the feeling of trying to binge on some premium Netflix or Hulu eye food, but when a slow video stream results in a frozen screen or poor image quality, the euphoria disappears — and fast.*
Because **thing means anything **wadays without hard data to back it up, cloud delivery platform Akamai (http://mashable.com/category/akamai/) decided to conduct a study (https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/white-paper/bit-rate-and-business-model.pdf) into exactly what happens to our feels when the streaming starts to go bad.*
SEE ALSO: Don't count on Netflix as net neutrality's savior (http://mashable.com/2017/05/31/netflix-net-neutrality-reed-hastings-code-conference/)
Akamai teamed up with Sensum (https://sensum.co/) to measure more than 1,000 people's responses to low quality video streams. Shock! They hated the sucky video streams.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/21/akamai-streaming-video-ott-bad-quality-research/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Buffering… Buffering… Aaaaad… Fist. Through. Laptop. Screen. Yes, we all k**w the feeling of trying to binge on some premium Netflix or Hulu eye food, but when a slow video stream results in a frozen screen or poor image quality, the euphoria disappears — and fast.*
Because **thing means anything **wadays without hard data to back it up, cloud delivery platform Akamai (http://mashable.com/category/akamai/) decided to conduct a study (https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/white-paper/bit-rate-and-business-model.pdf) into exactly what happens to our feels when the streaming starts to go bad.*
SEE ALSO: Don't count on Netflix as net neutrality's savior (http://mashable.com/2017/05/31/netflix-net-neutrality-reed-hastings-code-conference/)
Akamai teamed up with Sensum (https://sensum.co/) to measure more than 1,000 people's responses to low quality video streams. Shock! They hated the sucky video streams.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/21/akamai-streaming-video-ott-bad-quality-research/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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