This week, I recap the opening weekend of the NFL season, reviewing the streaming services across YouTube (NFL Sunday Ticket), ESPN (Monday Night Football), Amazon (Thursday Night Football), and Peacock (Sunday Night Football). I document why YouTube came out on top, the problems Amazon and Peacock faced, and the complete outages on Xfinity and Shaw.

I also discuss the patent suit that Sling TV and DISH Technologies filed against fuboTV alleging infringement of eight patents related to multi-bitrate streaming, with the oldest patent dating back to Move Networks technology. And I briefly cover news from Apple that the new A17 Pro chip will support AV1 video via a dedicated AV1 decoder in the new iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max.

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