BB100 and watching streaming on xbox? - Canadian TV, Computing and Home Theatre Forums

stationg · 2012-04-28, 10:21 PM

I want to subscribe to MLBtv which streams to my xbox. Its a monthly or yearly subscription.

Question: I get 500gb per month

How much would a 2-3hr baseball game in HD run???

Seems like I would run out of space quite quickly if I watched this regularly on xbox streaming?

Thanks

tux · 2012-04-29, 12:59 AM

According to MLB.tv, their streaming video has a bitrate between 400-700 kbps.

This would translate into 180 MB - 315 MB/hr, or approximately 0.5 - 1 GB for a 3 hr game. You could watch over 500 3-hour games per month, without exceeding your cap.

stolen · 2012-05-01, 10:39 AM

the 400-700kb/s bitrate is for standard def.
according to:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/help/faq_technical.jsp#q31
"Higher quality MLB.TV content is streamed within 800kbps to 3Mbps and your bandwidth must be consistently pulling 90% of the streaming rate to receive a high-quality video feed."
So assuming best case scenario (worst case for a cap) of 3Mb/s:
3*60*60*3/8 =~ 4 gigabytes per 3 hour game. Which means you could only watch about 125 3 hour games in a month.

ravenchilde · 2012-05-01, 02:57 PM

You're a regular cut-up Stolen. :P

audacity · 2012-05-01, 03:14 PM

One key item to point out is if you were to exceed your bandwidth cap (500GB/month) you're only going to be out an additional $10 when you get bumped up to the 750GB/month cap.

Source

Unlike some other companies, Shaw doesn't have punitive prices on bandwidth overage rates.

For a data point, we do quite a bit of streaming at my house (and also have BB100) and according to DD-WRT we only use about ~250GB/month on a busy month. For April I'm showing 175.24GB downloaded, 19.09GB uploaded.

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2012-04-29, 12:59 AM	#2
tux Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Winnipeg Posts: 757	According to MLB.tv, their streaming video has a bitrate between 400-700 kbps. This would translate into 180 MB - 315 MB/hr, or approximately 0.5 - 1 GB for a 3 hr game. You could watch over 500 3-hour games per month, without exceeding your cap.

2012-05-01, 10:39 AM	#3
stolen Rookie Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Calgary Posts: 2	the 400-700kb/s bitrate is for standard def. according to: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/help/faq_technical.jsp#q31 "Higher quality MLB.TV content is streamed within 800kbps to 3Mbps and your bandwidth must be consistently pulling 90% of the streaming rate to receive a high-quality video feed." So assuming best case scenario (worst case for a cap) of 3Mb/s: 36060*3/8 =~ 4 gigabytes per 3 hour game. Which means you could only watch about 125 3 hour games in a month.

2012-05-01, 02:57 PM	#4
ravenchilde Rookie Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 4	You're a regular cut-up Stolen. :P

2012-05-01, 03:14 PM	#5
audacity Veteran Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: 127.0.0.1 Posts: 1,803	One key item to point out is if you were to exceed your bandwidth cap (500GB/month) you're only going to be out an additional $10 when you get bumped up to the 750GB/month cap. Source Unlike some other companies, Shaw doesn't have punitive prices on bandwidth overage rates. For a data point, we do quite a bit of streaming at my house (and also have BB100) and according to DD-WRT we only use about ~250GB/month on a busy month. For April I'm showing 175.24GB downloaded, 19.09GB uploaded.