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Sometimes you see a post so wilfully ignorant and uninformed that your blood starts to boil as you're typing out a response.

I did not write a response, it would be wasted, so I'm passive aggressively dunking on them here, instead.

This person quite obviously does not understand:
- content delivery networks
- h.264 vs h.265 encoding
- the energy requirements of launching and maintaining a satellite

( I just looked at the posters bio, and they're apparently an ex-electronics engineer!)

ITV Studios has partnered with British space media company Sen to launch Space Live, which will deliver continuous live 4K views of Earth from orbit, making this unique view accessible to ITVX users across the UK from 15th October. THIS IS TOTALLY STUPID. ITVX is streaming. Streaming is per user video, and should only be used for Video on demand. This is up to 10,000 more wasteful of the environment than terrestrial broadcast or 500,000 times worse than Satellite. Also HD would be enough.
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in reply to Gary Parker

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The logic is a bit perplexing. I don't see how something that transmits video from orbit to be distributed over fibre/point-to-point links is "500,000 times worse" than something that transmits video down from orbit, transmits it back up to orbit, and then broadcasts it back down again to multiple receivers; or "10,000 more wasteful" than dedicating airwave bandwidth to this.

Plus: YouTube has been streaming this for most of 2025. (Just checked: 223 people watching the YouTube live stream right now.) So it's a mystery why it's only suddenly stupid when #ITVX starts to carry the stream.

#Broadcasting #SpaceLive #BroadastEngineering #Telecommunications #Sen

#telecommunications #broadcasting #SEN #ITVX #spacelive #broadastengineering
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