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Roku lays off 300 workers and removes streaming content to save money (www.engadget.com)

submitted 1 year ago by DannyMac to c/technology

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Roku looks to be seriously tightening its pursestrings. The company’s laying off a full ten percent of its workforce, over 300 employees, in addition to a conducting a number of other cost-cutting measures, as reported by Variety. These job cuts are just the beginning, as Roku’s also removing streaming content, consolidating office space and reducing outside service expenses. The goal here is a major reduction in the year-over-year operating expense growth rate.

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[–] MooseBoys 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

bitrate is an average

Yes but that’s why the network and decoder are buffered. It’s also why most content is constrained at encode time to target both an average bitrate and a peak bitrate. A 200% constraint is typical, so you shouldn’t find 4K HDR in the wild at over 80Mbps peak bitrate.

[–] echo64 1 points 1 year ago

The buffers on streaming devices are much smaller on these devices because of how cost reduced they are. You're way overselling how large they are.

Also, 80mbps is actually a pretty common avg bitrate on 4kuhd blurays. You have 100gb of disk to play with and they generally want to use it as much as possible.