Friday’s fight between Paul and Tyson was very popular. Netflix streamed it to over 60 million households, which is a huge number for any televised event, much less a purely streaming event. Whether everything went well, however, is another matter. The fight itself wasn’t very exciting, and for a large portion of the audience it wouldn’t have mattered if it had been – all they saw was a delayed, pixelated nothingness. Netflix is clearly interested in live programming and sports, but is it ready to make it big?
On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Richard Lawler joins the show to talk about the state of sports broadcasting. We talk about the ups and downs of Netflix’s experiments with live streaming so far, what’s at stake for the company’s first NFL games this Christmas, and the technical challenges facing any streaming service trying to deliver live coverage at scale. It turns out that decades of digging trenches and hanging wires have given cable networks some advantages.
Then we go back in time about a millennium. Roland Allen, author of The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper, joins the show to talk about a thousand years of note-taking and why, even now, there is something magical about pen and paper. We talk about the creation of Moleskine, the centuries-old origins of the Bullet Journal, why typing doesn’t help you remember the same way writing does, and much more.
Finally, we explore a question from the Vergecast hotline regarding third-party CarPlay screens that are available throughout the TikTok store. Producer Will Poor bought one, tried it out, and has some thoughts.
If you want to learn more about everything we cover in this episode, here are some links to get you started, first with sports broadcasts:
And for portable CarPlay devices:
Credit : www.theverge.com
