Jim Bennett, Ph.D.
Recommendation System Manager
NetFlix

Ongoing discussion about Watch Now video capture and online distribution. Could expand discussion to include Reed Hastings, Neil Hunt and other technical people.

• Notes: Three performance tiers (Basic [500 Kbps], Good [1.0 Mbps], High [1.6-2.2+ Mbps]). Bit rates and video sizes (widthxheight) for the three tiers (measured on RGS home network): 439 Kbps / 320x180, 964 Kbps / 512x288 and 2.12 Mbps / 720x404. WatchNow creates a temporary wmv file (pbuffer.wmv, ~1.7 GB). Service is only available for PCs, not Macs.

Contributions?