Proper use of the Internet during these coronavirus home confinements is important. The effectiveness of the networks depends on everyone, and as a result companies like YouTube have decided to reduce the quality of their videos in Europe to help avoid overloading the servers.
The first service to announce the rating of these features was Netflix, which would reduce the quality of its series and movies by one month to reduce platform traffic on European networks by about 25%. In addition to this action taken by the company itself, you can help not disrupt the network while watching content on Netflix. How so? It's very simple, reducing the streaming quality of your account.
How to reduce image quality on Netflix to use less
Home confinement leads us dramatically increasing Internet use: phone calling, watching series on streaming platforms, making video calls with the family … Many of the activities we do these days, especially those dedicated to entertainment, involve the extensive use of a network of networks.
For this reason, it is important that we do our part to reduce the use of resources and thus allow the Internet to continue to function normally. In addition to the quality degradation created by the platform itself, you can also reduce the content content you will see on Netflix to make less use. Step by step, we explain how to do it.
1º- Open Netflix, either on your computer or on your mobile phone. If you do it from a computer, as we did in this tutorial, you should place the mouse on your profile picture, in the top right corner, and click the "Account" option in the menu that is displayed.
On the other hand, if you want to reduce the streaming quality from the Netflix app, you have to click on the "More" tab, in the bottom right corner, and then scroll down until you find the "Account" option, which you have to choose.
2nd- This will open a web page in your browser where you can configure all your Netflix account settings. In this case, the important section is "My Profile", where you can directly change the settings associated with your profile. In "My Profile", an option to sign in to click "Play Settings", which will be the one that allows you to modify the playback content adjustments.
3º- By selecting "Play Settings", you will enter a menu where you can set the default playback controls and data usage per screen, the latter is a method that allows you to change the image quality. As you can see you have 4 options:
- By default (automatic data quality and video usage)
- Down (basic video quality, up to 0.3 GB per hour)
- Medium (normal video quality, up to 0.7GB per hour)
- High (High video quality, up to 3GB per hour HD, 7GB per hour Ultra HD)
Recommended option for these days of confinement where Internet use is very high can be average, normal video quality it's like one YouTube left in the rest of its video. So, you also make sure you don't see too many quality switches when it comes to playing your series and your favorite movies.
Also You should look for the time of day to be featured on Netflix, doing what is called proper use. Centers recommend storing video streams and downloading of those times when traffic is low, thus helping you not to ruin the network.
In short, Reduce the quality of streaming on Netflix and make hours watch less traffic here are two steps you can take to help maintain the Internet. After using this, you are ready to get the best of Netflix series 8 episodes.
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