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Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network

Posted by mrngm |3 hours ago |5 comments

urams an hour ago

Interestingly multicast is used extensively by exchanges to distribute trading data to participants. I think it's the primary commercial usage outside of some IoT things.

NoMoreNicksLeft 2 hours ago[3 more]

I'm not sure I understand the point. For small home networks, there is no bandwidth difference between this and streaming solutions like Jellyfin. Yes, this was a cool technology, and if some large provider like AT&T wanted to use this to broadcast channels to everyone at once it would've made more sense than streaming... but even for that use case the world has moved on. Does anyone watch scheduled television anymore except local news and sportsball?