Live Blogging Super Bowl Lviii Stream on Paramount+ Across Devices
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My bullet point high-level thoughts on the Super Bowl stream:
- Numbers aren’t out yet, but I would expect an AMA number of under 9 million (2023 was 7 million AMA)
- While some were debating online if the Paramount+ stream was in 4K, it wasn’t. Their stream was 1080P 60fps true PQ HDR, had no color space conversions and was encoded for six bitrates maxing out at 12Mbps.
- Depending on the device and platform, I saw latency from 2 seconds to 60 seconds behind the TV broadcast feed
- HDR on Parmaount+ looked great across all devices I streamed on, and the upscaled 4K/HDR/5.1 stream on YouTube TV looked great as well
- Some users, including myself, did experience some errors or crashing of the stream, which started before kickoff and was largely mitigated before it could impact a larger portion of users. I put the impact to 1% or less of the total streams delivered.
- One media outlet reported, "The streaming platform seems to be struggling with all the Super Bowl traffic,” which was inaccurate. Paramount was prepared for the viewership they received, and there was no problem with the volume of users.
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