Almost two months ago, Netflix said it would reduce video bit rates for 30 days in Europe, aiming to reduce bandwidth consumed by customers by 25% during the COVID-19 crisis. It has now been 55 day…
video, in some cases with bit rates at less than 50% usual. They say that has caused noticeable degradation of image quality, including blurring and pixelation, especially on bigger TV screen sizes.
Netflix’s bit-rate throttling is “quite obvious just by watching on my 65-inch OLED,” Anders Nygren, a Netflix customer in Sweden, toldMonday on Reddit, a Netflix user in the Netherlands claimed they were seeing bit rates for 1080p HD movies range from 0.8 megabits per second to 1.5 Mbps, while Ultra HD 4K movies were at 7.5 Mbps. For context, Netflix’s recommended bandwidth minimums are 5 Mbps for HD video and 25 Mbps for Ultra HD quality.
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