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Do they really have so few titles?

It's been a while since I last subscribed so my recollection my be fuzzy, but I remember they had easily over 500 unique sci-fi tv shows and movies alone.

They lost a bunch due to licensing over the years. Data online suggests it’s 20k globally so you probably wouldn’t need to cache all of them at a particular edge

Would that allow them to cache the full collection at multiple resolutions? I expect not.

They likely store the same video repeatedly with different resolutions/codecs/bitrates, so it might be fewer than expected

I was factoring that and error coding in my ballpark estimate

How many episodes per show?

Things to consider:

- These are cache servers they don't need to handle the whole library, just what's most hit.

- They cache, video and audio in mutiple formats

- This thing lives inside telecom infrastrure, near their users. A content available in South America should be to no use in an european location.