• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Storing is done once by simply offering a 4k option*.

    Bandwidth is an ongoing cost per view, but no where near the increased plan cost to cover it.

    *technically more than once because of distributed CDNs which would need to scale to demand. But negligible.

    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I mean they cache it all via CDN. In some cases that means they’ve got 1000 copies of a popular show sitting on CDNs around the world, and in some cases that means they are dynamically pushing content to CDNs on demand.