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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/04\/19\/netflix-blames-a-technical-bug-for-its-love-is-blind-live-stream-issues-says-it-will-try-live-again\/<\/a><\/br> Netflix\u2019s flubbed foray into livestreaming was a topic of discussion during the streamer\u2019s first-quarter earnings on Tuesday<\/a> with co-CEO Greg Peters telling investors how sorry the company was for \u201cdisappointing so many people,\u201d and explaining in more detail what had happened. Over the weekend, Netflix had been set to release its first live reunion special<\/a> with the cast of \u201cLove is Blind\u201d Season 4, but serious technical issues led to the stream being canceled after a 75-minute delay<\/a>. The new episode was filmed and then quickly published as a traditional video-on-demand as a result of the issues.<\/p>\n Subscribers were naturally unhappy about the glitches, as they had carved out time to watch the show when it was originally set to air. It\u2019s worth noting that getting people to tune in to so-called \u201cappointment TV\u201d is a highly difficult task in the age of streaming. It\u2019s no small matter, then, for Netflix to drop the ball here, especially as the show was meant to showcase Netflix\u2019s new livestreaming capabilities.<\/p>\n Before this, Netflix had only livestreamed one other event when, in March, it debuted Chris Rock\u2019s<\/a> \u201clive comedy special Selective Outrage<\/a>.\u201d In the week following its release, the special had been viewed for a total of 17.8 million hours<\/a> and reached Netflix\u2019s Global Top 10 chart.<\/p>\n What crashed Netflix\u2019s reunion special, however, was not necessarily a large surge of viewers.<\/p>\n On the Q1 earnings call, Peters confirmed that around 6.5 million people ended up watching the \u201cLove is Blind\u201d reunion, though he didn\u2019t clarify during what time frame.<\/p>\n Instead, Peters acknowledged the technical glitches had to do with an internal bug the company had introduced after the Chris Rock special in March, which wasn\u2019t discovered until it tried to livestream again under the load of millions of viewers.<\/p>\n \u201cI would start by saying we are really sorry to have disappointed so many people. We didn\u2019t meet the standard that we expect of ourselves to serve our members,\u201d Peters explained on the call. \u201cAnd just to be clear from a technical perspective, we have got the infrastructure, we had just a bug that we introduced actually when we implemented some changes to try and improve livestreaming performance after the last live broadcast, Chris Rock in March. And we just didn\u2019t see this bug in internal testing, because it only became apparent once we put sort of multiple systems interacting with each other under the load of millions of people trying to watch \u2018Love is Blind,’\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n The company stressed that it would learn from the mistake and stressed that it does have the fundamental infrastructure to allow for more live streams in the future.<\/p>\n Though Netflix didn\u2019t tease any upcoming projects, co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the company would continue to use live \u201cwhen it makes sense creatively,\u201d such as with other comedy specials like Chris Rock\u2019s and reunion shows that will generate buzz.<\/p>\n \u201cIt really does play better live when people can enjoy it together,\u201d he said, but noted that most of the viewing takes place after the livestream airs.<\/p>\n \u201cI do think sometimes those results-oriented shows do play out a little bit better on live and they do generate a lot of conversation,\u201d Sarandos said on the call. \u201cBut keep in mind, like on Chris Rock, about 90% of the viewing have been after, but it doesn\u2019t change the fact that it was a big event when it happened live.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the glitches, Netflix managed to capitalize on the buzz around the reunion special in another way \u2014 by poking fun at itself on an LA billboard<\/a> that reads, \u201cWe told you the Love is Blind reunion would be memorable!\u201d<\/p>\n Still, the streamer may not get many more passes to work out the bugs with its live platform.<\/p>\n Its subscribers are already frustrated over rising streaming prices, password-sharing crackdowns and, in some people\u2019s opinion, declining content quality. The latter is something Sarandos himself also acknowledged<\/a> last year, saying that Netflix has to improve on the core service, \u201cwhich is making TV series and films and now games that people really love.\u201d<\/p>\n The company, at the time, had just come off its first-ever subscriber loss.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nNetflix blames a technical bug for its \u2018Love is Blind\u2019 livestream issues, says it will try live again<\/br>
\n2023-04-19 21:51:39<\/br><\/p>\n