| The Ballad of Buster Scruggs [message #89606] |
Tue, 22 January 2019 09:58  |
Rusty
Messages: 1190
Registered: May 2018
Location: Kansas City Missouri
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I'm new to this here fancy streaming tv thing. I bought a Roku do-hicky device that allow one to pick up a lot of stuff. Most just a warmed over steaming pile. I joined Netflix just to get a load of what it's all about. Don't know if I'll keep it though. Some of the stuff I've watched I end up fast forwarding through because the characters are either tedious or annoying. Like Lost in Space. The Mist was a total bust, unlike the movie which was very compelling. Any who, I watched a western that was pretty unique, a series of vignette stories out of the wacky minds of the Cohen bros.. I'd been delighted though if the first story, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs had been the subject of the whole shebang. Just about the most untypical gun slinger one could imagine. What a hoot he is.
The saloon scene..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0ZEmLosVXE
It's all way too short lived, our run in with old Buster. This puts a kink in whether or not I'll stay on with the soon to be more expensive Netflix.
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| Re: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs [message #89615 is a reply to message #89613] |
Wed, 23 January 2019 10:27  |
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Wayne Parham
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Registered: January 2001
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Quick digression -
You're really lucky to have good internet. Because as you've said, "Never has there been such a choice a viewer can make for so little investment, if they have fast enough internet." You do need fast and reliable internet for video streaming.
I initially resisted all real-time streaming technologies, e.g. VoIP (voice) and video over IP. Because the whole IP protocol is designed to be fault tolerant in a way that precludes real-time signals. The packets can (and will) arrive out of order. They may not ever be lost, but if they're sufficiently delayed, then they are "lost" in the real-time stream because the feed has passed the point in time that the delayed packet was needed.
That's why buffering is so important for a video feed. It delays everything long enough to (hopefully) wait for long-lost packets. Since the video feed isn't really real-time, it can be delayed and treated as though it were a download.
That plus fast internet is a requirement for video streaming.
Live audio and video feeds are still plagued with the lost packets problem. But streaming content is a hybrid approach that isn't really live, more like a download. Still, streaming services need good internet to prevent choppy playback, broken with those annoying "buffering" messages.
- Sorry to digress. Now back to Buster Scruggs and other neat things to watch on Netflix.
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| Re: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs [message #89616 is a reply to message #89606] |
Wed, 23 January 2019 11:14 |
Rusty
Messages: 1190
Registered: May 2018
Location: Kansas City Missouri
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Thanks for the digression. I never knew the technical implications for what VoIP can present, but what I've encountered with my phone service. Strictly to save money and keep a semblance of a LAN line. I get delays and clicking, but it's as cheap as you can get. My internet is at a minimum for what the requirement is for streaming. No problems so far. But like I say. NO FEE's! Yet that is. As a thrifty consumer I'm living fairly large with what I have.
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