• Question: why do videos still buffer even though we make new and improved technology every year but we still have buffering?

    Asked by Abel to anuantony, Duncan, Jayne, Katherine, Sajid on 8 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Duncan McNicholl

      Duncan McNicholl answered on 8 Nov 2017:


      Because when you make the technology better, you can do one of two things with it: you can make the videos load faster, or you can make them look better when they load. You can’t do both, and if you have better-looking video, everybody notices. If you have faster-loading video, only some people notice, so most of the time companies choose better-looking video instead, and we still have to wait for it to buffer.

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