I’m testing DAZN’s stream of Super Bowl LX, available to NFL Game Pass subscribers outside the US for just £0.99, and the stream looks great. DAZN is taking the NBC international feed in 1080p at 59.94 fps HLG with 5.1, and streaming it in 1080p HDR, not upscaled 4K. I am streaming the DAZN feed […]
I’ve been testing the Super Bowl LX stream on Sunday, starting with the pre-game stream at 1pm, across more than 25 devices and platforms, documenting video quality, latency, and other technical metrics. You can jump here for my latest comments during the game. (2025 Super Bowl blog post here) During the game, I am monitoring […]
We’ve seen inaccurate statements from some vendors recently regarding CDN services. Achieving a “50% bitrate reduction” doesn’t mean you can automatically “reduce CDN costs by up to 50%.” Beamr and other vendors promote this idea in press releases, such as the one Beamr issued for a demo at IBC, but it’s clear that many vendors […]
While the live stream of the Super Bowl broadcast receives a lot of media attention due to its high viewership, events that last longer and are delivered in multiple countries around the world have more complex streaming pipelines. Across 30 days, DAZN live-streamed 63 matches of the FIFA Club World Cup for free in 200 […]
FOX has released new technical details on its 2025 Super Bowl stream, including the rebuffer rate (0.5%), percentage of viewership in 4K (28%), peak CDN capacity (135 Tbps), and where it invested in its video workflow architecture. At the 2025 NAB Streaming Summit, Mayur Srinivasan, SVP of Digital Video Platform at Fox Corporation, did a […]
My live blog of the Super Bowl stream is up. Click here to jump to the section with the updates. I’ll compare the video quality, latency and other details from Tubi across Fire TV, Apple TV, Roku, LG and Samsung TVs, iPhones, iPads and MacBooks. I’ll also check the streams on YouTube TV, Sling TV, […]
FOX shared with me its encoding bitrate ladder for the Super Bowl, with the max bitrate topping out at close to 15Mbps. FOX will capture the game in 1080p, upscale it to 4K HDR, and digitally distribute it to vMVPDs and FOX’s platform. The 2024 Super Bowl stream on Paramount had an average minute audience […]