Those who like to watch movies and TV shows in online services (streaming) have noticed that the quality
On Amazon and YouTube recently confirmed thatforced to reduce the quality of the video stream, especially in European countries. The fact is that throughput is now necessary for measures aimed at combating the coronavirus pandemic. The companies decided for some time to switch the traffic towards Europe to a lower resolution - SD by default. This statement was made by the head of Amazon, as well as a representative of Google.
At the same time, these companies joinedNetflix, the largest streaming service, which announced a couple of days earlier that it will reduce video quality to European countries in order to free up resources for more important purposes. The service is an industry giant; it is one of the main sources of global Internet traffic. Now the company will release bandwidth by a quarter. To achieve such savings, the service needs to lower the video bitrate. In general, few will notice a decrease in video quality, except for rare owners of giant panels. Meter on two diagonal. An ordinary TV practically does not show the difference, but enough channel width is freed up to help people in the fight against coronavirus.
Internet demand is growing
Due to the fact that in many countries announcedquarantine, people sit at home, they have no choice but to communicate, work and relax through the Internet. Demand for Internet channels is huge now, and it continues to grow. Even schoolchildren and students stopped going to schools and universities, now all training has been transferred to the online mode, knowledge is obtained remotely so as not to spread the virus. This greatly increases the load on the channels, that's why streaming streaming services reduce the quality so that others get more speed.
Netflix currently has around 170million subscribers to its products worldwide. Amazon also has quite a lot - more than 150 million. And what can we say about such a monster as YouTube, which has more than two billion registered users. True, they are not subscribers, and not everyone brings money, but everyone watches videos, and with them advertising.