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Coronavirus effect: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and others to cease HD content streaming
Netflix app for mobile (DH Photo/Rohit KVN)
Since the Coronavirus outbreak in China early January 2020, the pandemic has spread to global regions, more so in Europe with Italy worst affected. Most of the affected areas across Europe with more than 450 million population are under lockdown and with restricted movements, people have been asked to work from home and others are binging on multi-media contents on streaming apps to kill the time.
This apparently has caused a heavy load on the cellular network across the European Union. To mitigate the further stress, Thierry Breton, commissioner of the European Union Internal Market, urged Netflix and other Over-The-Top (OTT) players to lower the video content quality from 1080p(High Definition) to 480p(Standard Definition) for a limited time.
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[Note: To view HD content on Netflix, device's display should have minimum support of 720p. And on devices with full HD+ or greater resolution display, Netflix can switch the content quality from 720p to 1080p. Users also get Ultra HD (2160p) option, but only a few TV shows and movies available in this segment. Similarly, SD can range between 450p and 576p resolution depending on the device is a mobile phone or a television]
So far, Netflix has agreed to the commissioner's request and will be lowering the streaming video quality to SD for a period of 30 days. This initiative is expected to reduce internet traffic by 25-percent in Europe.
With this initiative, people will be able to get high-speed internet to gain access to information on coronavirus and also others can complete their official work online.
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An hour of HD content consumes 3GB and 7GB for Ultra HD, while the SD content requires 0.7GB per hour on Netflix.
Update: 18:25 pm IST
Google's YouTube too, has announced to reduce the HD streaming to SD in Europe. This will further free up internet traffic stress on telecommunication networks.
Other on-demand multimedia streaming services such as Amazon, Disney Plus and Hulu are also expected to follow suit.
There is no word on whether if the same measures will be taken in other parts of the world including India.
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We are going through one of the worst phases so far. Over bridges crashing and killing people, high rises catching fire, forests catching fire mby 'accident' *ahem*, PMC scam bringing thousands down to being penniless and brink of suicide, pathetic air quality filled with pollution with the whole city under construction, major parts of the city being without water for almost a week (including drinking water), the whole Yes Bank initial panic in the interim and now Covid with cases increasing every single day. We are literally at a partial lockdown. Police vans are patrolling and closing down shutters, no office, no work, no wages or salary, absolutely nothing! And all of this in just one year!
Hoping and praying that like always the city will bounce back with the mumbaikar spirit the city is known for. Really tough time for the city with high level of stress and anxiety. Everything is going off racks in grocery stores. People are hoarding like anything. Stores look like ration shops with lines reaching outside foodpath!
And a slum dweller has just been tested positive today which has made efforts even more difficult for the authorities in the city than ever before. How will you identify and test people in a slum consisting of over 23,000 people?!
Third.
No community spread yet. West Bengal is doing well.
[QUOTE=Alpenliebe] Should Rajkumar Rao join India forums and keep a track on what people think about his chin ? [/QUOTE] Here is the thread
National award winning actress Rani Mukerji - an actress relevant for 30 yrs is missing and who do we have on the forum banner Some irrelevant...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgDNFQ2RaLQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04-s6uSHlro
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