(Field Level Media) Despite having viewers deal with frequent buffering, low quality feeds and other stream-related issues during Jake Paul’s victory over Mike Tyson in a boxing match on Friday night, Netflix is fully prepared to prove its worth as a sports streaming service.
Netflix will get to air a pair of NFL games on Christmas Day, providing streams for meetings between the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans.
Beyonce is scheduled to perform during halftime of the Ravens-Texans game, which could create more server traffic that Netflix will have to account for.
“We feel very ready and excited for the NFL on Christmas,” Netflix content chief Bela Bajaria said, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Sixty million viewers tuned into Netflix for the Paul-Tyson fight, with Downdetector.com, which tracks service outages, announcing that there were 90,000 issues reported at one point.
