India's JioCinema Breaks World Record With Free Cricket Streaming

India's JioCinema broke the global record for the most concurrent views to a live streamed event on Monday, eclipsing a long-standing milestone set by Disney's Hotstar, as the Asian tycoon Mukesh Ambani spares no expense in expanding his digital empire. From a report: The Indian streaming app, whose partner includes James Murdoch's Bodhi Tree-backed Viacom18, surpassed the record Monday evening, attracting over 32 million concurrent viewers to the final game of the 16th edition of Indian Premier League cricket tourney between Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans.

get it into ya

[Anonymouse Cowtard]

World's most populous country, world's lowest wages. It's free but it's got scrolling advertising across fully one third of the screen. This is not your news broadcaster's <marquee> tag. It's obtrusive. There are ads crammed in in the shortest breaks in play. It's like AOL sent you a cdrom with the cricket on it.

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[rossdee]

Its live sport - how can you put that on a CD?

Re: get it into ya

[Anonymouse Cowtard]

... and the commentators, this is no joke, cross LIVE to some people sitting in a specially made bay in the grandstand drinking... Bud? Jimmy Beam? ... Drinking TEA!

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[OrangeTide]

Live CD Linux distros have been around for decades, try to keep up.

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[echo123]

It's like AOL sent you a cdrom with the cricket on it.

Is the cricket inside the AOL CDROM envelope living or dead at the time of shipment? If sent living, is the survival rate reliably safe? Is the cricket meant to be a kind of food sampling or a pet? Does PETA and the health department know about this business practice?

Some people might be put off receiving multiple AOL CDROM envelopes with a live cricket, especially if they didn't appreciate the AOL CDROMs with a dead cricket, or even with no cricket at all.

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[ArchieBunker]

Sounds no different than your average NFL game. Find me a shot without a corporate logo or advertising. I mean they pause the game play for commercials.

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[93 Escort Wagon]

It's free but it's got scrolling advertising across fully one third of the screen.

Oh, I'd say our first-world live sports is steadily moving in that direction...

I have MLB.tv. This year, they've introduced these short 10-15 second adverts that run at times during the action. You'll be watching a guy bat, and next thing you know half the screen is showing a rather loud Papa Murphy's commercial while the other half remains on the game (but with the play by play muted).

It's quite annoying.

Cricket streaming

[flyingfsck]

Lots of crickets in the wheat fields around here!

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[tlhIngan]

Meanwhile, DeSantis' presidential announcement was a "world breaking" 700,000 concurrent viewers and was delayed a half hour because Twitter melted down and was full of glitches and other problems.

Yes, the DeSantis team is claiming 700,000 people viewing their announcement was so big it broke Twitter. He's that popular, they're saying.

No one tell him that there are sites that handled 32M viewers without melting down.

Just something to consider.

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[fermion]

I would say the World Cup probably has a much wider representation. But cricket is certainly the championship of the former British empire.

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[cmseagle]

For some formats and tournaments, yes, but the one described in the article is not one of them. The Indian Premier League (IPL) is, unsurprisingly, entirely made up of Indian teams.

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[_merlin]

Indian teams with a surprising number of foreign players on them.

Twitter broke at what?

[fermion]

A thousand Desantis viewers.

I stopped using Twitter not for any political reasons, just because it became really crappy again

Murdoch Media Empire expands

[t.reagan]

They control US (Fox news in every nursing home), UK, Australia, and now India...

Murdochs influence the most brains on the planet. More powerful than any government.

Re: Murdoch Media Empire expands

[Anonymouse Cowtard]

Is it James or Lachlan that's the evil one? I can never remember. The apple never falls far from the sewer, or something.

Highly compressible

[The Evil Atheist]

For large sections of the game, they can just show a static image of the guys standing around in the field.

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[AkIonSight]

For large sections of the game, they can just show a static image of the guys standing around in the field.

Agreed, when the game chugs along it does come down to simply seeing still images or gentle movement However bitrates cannot be compromised since you never wanna lose the ball as a compression artifact; and since sometimes all the action comes down to tracking what is the equivalent of a few white pixels on the screen against a dark sky. in fact, since most of the coverage of the game involves following the ball (similar to football or hockey), losing the ball (which does sometimes happen since the ball is

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[sysrammer]

For large sections of the game, they can just show a static image of the guys standing around in the field.

Wouldn't you need at least a Brownian Generator to give a semblance of action? But, perhaps you're right--compression artifacts might serve the purpose.

Two images in proximity may activate the sprite("allFallDown") routine.

World Series

[darkstar019]

On top of it, just like NFL, this is a domestic league where top foreign players also participate. Twice delayed by the rain and stretching well after midnight, but still the record breaking viewership is definitely a record.

Check your racism!

[zshXx]

The comments are just shameful here. Instead of appreciating the feat, most commenters just keep talking about third world country, lot of ads, etc. etc. Why don't you stream nfl for free and break the record? OR FIFA ffs?

It's cricket

[r1348]

If it lags, you won't notice.