Back up plan
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Jul 18, 2019, 11:49 AM
Le Mans Master
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From: Bergen County NJ
See the 8 million pics and vids all over the internet the next day?
Safety Car
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From: South East
For me, and I assume a lot of us on the east coast - if the live-stream skips or drops making it unwatchable, then off to bed it is, and watch it the following morning/day. The video will be captured and available to download no problemo.
Melting Slicks
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From: Los Angeles CA
A YouTube livestream would be a nice guarantee of such an outage not happening. Google, which owns YouTube, has the infrastructure to handle any amount of traffic. Incidentally, A YouTube stream might even make the event aware to an even larger audience who might be outside of the GM contact notification list.... But hey, what do I know. The experts at GM have it all figured out.
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Safety Car
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From: South East
If the video craps out, just wait a few minutes and start searching for pics, there will be tons posted ASAP so you can see what it looks like
Safety Car
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From: Oro Valley Arizona
Hmm?
My plan is my back up plan. I'm watching a recording of the first round of the British Open. Tomorrow, a thousand websites will have the Reader's Digest version of the reveal. Which is just enough for me. In good order, I want to see it in the parking lot at Wal Mart. At a day's light on the way to anywhere. I want to see it in the showroom when the salesman can't tell me they are $10K over MSRP. And they will.
Melting Slicks
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If there are issues, it is likely to be between the venue and where-ever GM is streaming from. It will be only a couple of streams from the hanger to a server in some data center, and from there likely a multi-cast to the various upstream ISPs (who have customers to access the stream). It's really not the bandwidth hog (in terms of users) that it used to be. The biggest concern is the link to the hanger.
Melting Slicks
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Drifting
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If I miss it tonight then I'll see it when I see it. It will be plastered all over the place in the coming days.
