You Tube, Netflix and others asked to broadcast in SD over HD due to Coronavirus threat

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In its letter to the DoT, COAI given a list of the OTT platforms active in India - Amazon Prime Video, Youtube, Hotstar, Zee5, Alt Balaji, Voot, Sony Liv, Viuclip, Hoichoi, Netflix, and SunNXT who should immediately switch to Standard Definition streaming from HD in order to maintain the Intersnet


In its letter to the DoT, COAI given a list of the OTT platforms active in India - Amazon Prime Video, Youtube, Hotstar, Zee5, Alt Balaji, Voot, Sony Liv, Viuclip, Hoichoi, Netflix, and SunNXT who should immediately switch to Standard Definition streaming from HD in order to maintain the Intersnet speeds.With lock down in place most people are working from home, coupled with the non work internet consumption it is considerably slowing down the speed.

It all started with calls from the European Commission to cut down the bandwidth consumed by video streaming services. Thierry Breton, EU's commissioner for internal market and services, had a chat about this issue with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings earlier this week, suggesting that video streams should default to standard definition rather than high-def in this era of higher network traffic volumes.

Netflix was quick to accept this idea. Within a few hours, the company said that it would deploy a leaner video standard across Europe for the next 30 days, reducing the bandwidth consumed by a high-def video stream by roughly 25%. There may be visible differences in the resulting video quality, but most users aren't likely to notice

Tags : #Youtube #Netflix #Voot #Viuclip #Sonyliv #Hoichoi #Sunnxt

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