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Does it mean they’ll pay me back for the 4K package?
No, in the same way that you wouldn't expect a refund if you personally chose to use less than 4K for a stream. In this case Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, has made that downgrade choice for all Europeans.
Question to downvoters: does it make sense that every part of the EU gets this degraded quality even if they have competently built IT infrastructure?
Does it mean they’ll pay me back for the 4K package?
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It's a made up problem. In Germany, journalists asked the network providers and they said everything is fine. Such a ridiculous and pointless thing to do by the EU. Especially since all the apps drop the quality automatically anyway if the connection is slow.
Here in Berlin my DSL connection has been awful since the social distancing began. And many of my friends have complained of similar problems. Frequent disconnections, broken up zoom calls. Though ironically the streaming has been fine from both Netflix & Amazon.
Such a shame that multicast never took off. Would save tremendous amounts of bandwidth in times like this.
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I think that's what they are relieving...edge traffic volumes. If the local ISP cache box lowers it's maximum quality, the ISPs get relief. The ISPs oversubscribed, and can't deal with this many people being at home all at once.
Citation needed. In the UK... "UK broadband companies say they can cope with increased demand as many more people stay at home during the coronavirus crisis." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51870732
> Netflix will reduce the video quality on its service in Europe for the next 30 days, to reduce the strain on internet service providers.
emphasis mine.
Makes you think, how much further we could stretch things if we were all using the Nims/C/C++ of the world instead of the Ruby's. Please don't immediately flame, I'm just saying objectively, we could stretch hardware out much further. What do you guys think about this?
I don't think C++ generates more efficient packets than Ruby.....
> But it said viewers would still find the picture quality good.
I beg to differ and I'm watching on my tablet in bed and it reminds me of the Avi files we used to watch on lan networks in the 90s.