As you get settled in for a lovely day with your family, filled with NBA Christmas Day and NFL Christmas goodness, you’re probably wondering about a new potential problem.
Is Netflix prepared to handle possible buffering issues that might occur during the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens vs. Houston Texans matchups? It’s a fair question to ask after the connection disaster that was the Mike Tyson and Jake Paul fight. Shoot, even Beyoncé trolled the streaming platform about possible buffering problems on Christmas Day.
Netflix is well aware of the concerns.
Per Yahoo, it has “learned from past issues” and expects to be prepared for Christmas Day by doing things like “adjusting its content delivery, encoding, and streaming protocols.” And for what it’s worth, Netflix expects about 35 million concurrent viewers for its NFL Christmas games, but the audience could be in line with the Tyson-Paul fight, which had about 60 million viewers domestically.
That doesn’t sound super encouraging until we see it in practice. We’ll see whether these non-buffering promises hold up.
