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If Netflix can’t make live work, can anyone?

On The Vergecast: low-res streams, super-old notebooks, and too-good-to-be-true CarPlay gadgets.

The fight itself wasn’t very exciting, and for a large portion of the audience it wouldn’t have mattered if it was — all they could see was laggy, pixelated nothingness. On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge ’s Richard Lawler joins the show to talk through the state of sports streaming. We talk about the ups and downs of the Netflix live-streaming experiments so far, what’s at stake for the company’s first NFL games this Christmas, and the technical challenges for any streaming service trying to do live at scale.

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