[hmmazoids]

Yup agreed -- looking at it from the lens of building a streaming website that scales to that many viewers per stream, it isn't going to be cheap (but cool it can handle it if you put the money in I guess).

I assume this is more targeted towards universities where they have a max of 300 students (at least that's what my university capped classes at) and they need something to get started quickly. At most they may stream for like 6 hours a day for each class. You don't even need good quality -- lowest tier quality (SD) ends up being

$2.00 per hour * 6 = $12 $0.0375 per hour * 6 * 500 = $67.50

Honestly ~$80-100 per day to stream to all your students? Still kinda expensive I guess but might be a small price to pay for a university if it means they can offer streaming education. Not to mention 99% of the time students don't even tune in and just watch the VOD.