we live in hell

I don’t even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they’re saying…hey do you want a worse experience?

  • Flying SquidEnglish
    22•11 months ago

    Since you’re using a Roku Smart TV, it specifically is taking two full resolution “video snapshots” every second.

    “Got a data cap? Ha ha, fuck you.” – Roku

    • @[email protected]English
      8•11 months ago

      I haven’t done any research into what’s actually being transmitted, but I assume ACR feeds the snapshots into an ASIC that does something akin to perceptual hashing, then sends a chain of hashes collected over something like a 2-4sec window to an edge server for matching. So perhaps around 24kbps is actually being transmitted.