BOSTON—If you have ever wanted to throw something when that infamous spinning buffering wheel appears while you’re trying to stream a TV show or movie, you’re not alone. A recent study by IneoQuest ...

DENVER—Buffering video and poor-quality video can cost streaming services dearly—as much as $390 million per month, according to research from Bitmovin, a streaming infrastructure and adaptive ...

Instead of freezing to buffer, videos could play slightly slower without you noticing, with research showing this approach feels smoother and less frustrating for most viewers. The post This utterly ...

In what can only be described as the first world problem of a digital age, a new study has revealed that over half of consumers experience a new phenomenon known as “Buffer Rage,” an emotion described ...

Designed and conceptualized by just one person, Buffer.me is the epitome of what can happen when a talented designer tries to do something to improve an experience that seems less appealing by the day ...

A reserved section of memory for incoming video frames. A video buffer is used to maintain smooth, continuous viewing when the content is coming from a network. See buffering and adaptive streaming.