NFL Fans Complain About Buffering And Poor Video Quality During Amazon Prime ‘Thursday Night Football’ Debut

It’s the first Thursday Night Football game of the season on Amazon Prime, and fans are having some technical issues with the game.

Before the Chiefs-Chargers Thursday Night Football game, Amazon said they were confident they had enough bandwidth to deal with the millions of viewers who planned to watch at home.

Via Bloomberg

Amazon has spent months preparing, communicating with internet providers to make sure they are ready for an expected spike in traffic. It will reduce picture quality for fans with low bandwidth to ensure their stream doesn’t crash. And it has hired more customer-service representatives to field the inevitable complaints on social media.

“I don’t think there’s any company more prepared than we are to handle that type of scale and that type of challenge,” said Jay Marine, an Amazon veteran and former technical adviser to Bezos who now oversees Amazon’s sports business. “It’s what we’re good at.”

Unfortunately, things didn’t appear to run smoothly for fans at home.

Throughout the game, fans on social media complained about constant buffering and poor video quality.

Some fans even uploaded videos of the terrible quality they were getting from their streams.

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Brobible sports editor. Jorge is a Miami native and lifelong Heat fan. He has been covering the NBA, MLB and NFL professionally for almost 10 years, specializing in digital media.