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Since SX and MX have lost NBC streaming.
What is stopping them from releasing a joint streaming product with the quality of F1 or WRC+??
Id like for the streaming service to have historic races from the vaults too. I mean with my F1 app i can watch races from the 1970s.
On the Infrastructure side of things, Who can afford to rent the space or place it in a already used spaced?.. Do the Rack and stacking (Installation of servers and switches) etc.
Either the people at the top don't understand or they just don't want to wait for ROI after its done, but complete streaming control and able to do as you please has to be pretty damn nice.
(Side note; I run my own personal plex server to stream movies/music for our family, it is not as hard as people claim, once the data is there on the SSD Drive.. it sits there until activated, which requires freaking no maintenance on my part besides updates/ additions and removals for space)
What is stopping them from releasing a joint streaming product with the quality of F1 or WRC+??
Id like for the streaming service to have historic races from the vaults too. I mean with my F1 app i can watch races from the 1970s.
On the Infrastructure side of things, Who can afford to rent the space or place it in a already used spaced?.. Do the Rack and stacking (Installation of servers and switches) etc.
Either the people at the top don't understand or they just don't want to wait for ROI after its done, but complete streaming control and able to do as you please has to be pretty damn nice.
(Side note; I run my own personal plex server to stream movies/music for our family, it is not as hard as people claim, once the data is there on the SSD Drive.. it sits there until activated, which requires freaking no maintenance on my part besides updates/ additions and removals for space)
Cost to build the software
10 developer team rough cost per developer $125,000 (low side) a year = $1,250,000 a year
Probably need a team twice that size. But for this example, we'll use a 10-man team working for a year to build the software. So if we started today you wouldn't have anything functioning for a year.
The cost of hosting 50 years of Moto and 30 years of SX video is probably $500 a month (rough rough estimate) = $6,000 a year
Bandwidth
This is where your numbers will be all over the place. Let's say 1 moto for MX is .5 of a gig and you watch 4 motos, that's 2 gigs per person that streams. 75,000 people stream your 2 gigs of video you are looking at $200-300 per TB of data depending upon who you are using so that's $45,000 in data per week.
Multiply that by 29 weeks of racing you have about $1,305,000.
Plus if you're using AWS you are probably paying for CPU cycles as well. So toss a bunch more in for that.
So
$1.25 million+ to build it
$1.3 million+ to host/serve it.
$1.25 million+ to maintain it per year for developers alone.
This is why you don't make your own version and you use someone else's software that has already eaten all the costs and get volume discounts on bandwidth.
I've seen 15-20k spent a month on AWS just to host eCommerce sites, POS, and Business back-offices. So that's $180,000 to $240,000 a year just for something that is not bandwidth intensive like video.
(all numbers are for example purposes and not 100% accurate, so don't roast me I was just trying to layout a proper example for "its easy").
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Does anyone think feld and mx sports should take up the same business mode ?
that said, so $6m total. For the single most important part of the sport. To ensure its growth and future. That without fixing, your entire series is going to die.
Doesn't sound like a bad investment nor one that SHOULD be cost prohibitive for a national series with 50y of history.
So basically: DO IT.
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Whoever / whatever is in charge of that streaming service is doing it correctly!
We need to follow that! Exactly that!
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