12 Oct
2021
12 Oct
'21
4:10 p.m.
On Tue, 12 Oct 2021, 02:24 Owen DeLong, <owen@delong.com> wrote:
A 4K 2 hour movie is about 40GB. Most modern smart TVs around 32GB of RAM and can probably devote about 20GB of that to buffering a stream, so yeah, that should actually be doable.
Most users are not streaming 4K, it's a very small fraction of streams. Even those that do tend to have only about 4-8GB of flash, which is about half used by the operating system alone. RAM-wise, you're definitely off by at least an order of magnitude there. M