[leereeves]

There's also the argument that few people want it, because multicast is only useful for synchronized streams.

Netflix, Spotify, and other services with on-demand content couldn't use it unless they made the service worse by forcing viewers to wait for a multicast.

[rolandog]

I bet they'd still have significant savings if they made everyone wait in 5-second lapses.

Pausing and resuming elsewhere would mean changing to a different multicast stream or starting a new one if there weren't any before.