Coronavirus has forced many countries in Europe to shut down their homes at home to prevent further spread of the disease. It's about separate steps that will last for several days and that they could cause a deterioration of the social network and the Internet, as those in charge of this public place warned yesterday when they filed complaints with major online video companies.
The European Union has partnered with Netflix, YouTube and other video streaming platforms to consider temporarily reducing the quality of visual content and thus avoid network collapse and saturation. The first company that heeded these recommendations was Netflix.
In this critical situation, many users are forced to work from home and need the Internet to do so and communicate, either through videoconference or through applications and programs to telework. Europe wants to make sure they can do it and that's why has asked these companies to limit the use of their services.
Netflix quality reduces quality and reduces consumption by 25%
As reported by The BBC, Netflix is already reducing video quality in Europe and is the rate that will apply in the next 30 days. According to data provided by Netflix, this change will reduce data usage by 25 percent, and viewers will continue to enjoy the image quality good enough to be "satisfied."
So those little edible little details that Netflix has yet to reduce its content correction, which means we will continue to content on 4k and FullHD, which the company has made lower the bit rate, better known as bitrate. This will make the series and movies look like we are a bit underwhelmed, but it is a solution that must be taken.
"After a meeting between Commissioner Thierry Breton and (Netflix CEO) Reed Hastings, and given the unusual challenges posed by coronavirus, Netflix has decided to begin lowering prices on all our 30-day broadcasts in Europe"
In these days we spend more time at home, internet use has increased dramatically, and in Italy they have reported a 75% increase. Networks are designed to support this additional function, but methods like these do not hurt. We currently have one millions of citizens at home working on videoconference, children teaching online, people eating content streaming or playing online. The European Union's recommendations are not limited to video companies, and are aimed at fair use by citizens.
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