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Originally Posted by Northendzone
until the day of the big game when you get nothing but buffering and you have a few in your living room
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With streaming, there are always backup options if you have an outage and you search around the net.
At the end of the day cable sports is also streaming if you actually think about it.
Many online streams use H.264/MPEG-4 over https in your browser. The ATSC standard for cable HDTV is MPEG-2 or H.264/MPEG-4 also. You are just getting the bits from servers relayed through the cable TV portion of your ISP's network rather than the internet portion of the network. Both are compressed and both are contingent on your ISPs servers and networking as its all digital. It's the same damn thing.