If Netflix can’t make live work, can anyone?

Photo collage of the Mike Tyson and Jake Paul boxing match. Image by: The Verge; Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images for Netflix

The Paul / Tyson fight on Friday was very popular. Netflix streamed it into more than 60 million households, which is a huge number for any TV event, much less a streaming-only one. Whether the whole thing went well, though, is another matter. The fight itself wasn’t very exciting, and for a large portion of the audience it wouldn’t have mattered if it was — all they could see was laggy, pixelated nothingness. Netflix is clearly bought in to live programming and sports, but is it ready to do...

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