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Apple TV+ Streaming Quality Lowered in Europe to Reduce Network Strain
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I couldn’t enjoy it in 4K DV on my tv anyway. And this only happens with Apple TV+ content. So annoying
Probably porn globally due to social distancing restriction. With that in mind, conspiracy theory is that the porn industry drove this change so they can prioritize and maximize profit on their own streams.
With all due respect, but does your country not have more important infrastructure capacity issues to worry about? Your health care system is collapsing, and you’re complaining about your ISP? Get some perspective.
Also, this has nothing to do with net neutrality.
On average internet is inferiour in the US compared to EU, with lower speeds and many households not even having broadband. Also, let’s see which government will handle this crisis better.
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EU is all about rules and regulations. They really love to stick their nose on stuff they don't quite understand and pretend they know it all and they are "god almighty" helping citizens.
This is totally wrong. Most members of the European Commission are career politicians. They may or may not have some background in their area of responsibility, but that is mostly not the main reason they are chosen.
Wow! Hopefully you never get into a posistion of power as you clearly have no idea of the effects of mental health. It's people like you that is the reason that mental health is not taken seriously.
I hope they do the same across all of US when the curfews start place, just because someone in some rural area cannot get 4K.
This was driven by a few European countries like the UK and Germany with mediocre ISP's, and similar mobile carriers. I have a gigabit connection at home, and I can still get 900 Mbit/s across Europe.
Luckily Apple TV+ doesn't have content.
This was driven by a few European countries like the UK and Germany with mediocre ISP's, and similar mobile carriers. I have a gigabit connection at home, and I can still get 900 Mbit/s across Europe.
Luckily Apple TV+ doesn't have content.
It’s beyond dumb that they do this for the entire EU, it’s just a few **** countries that seems to have spent their free EU money on parties instead of infrasctructure that have these problems (Italy and Spain for example). It’s the same ones as in 2008 really, a few freeloading countries weighting down the rest of the EU.
Only a small minority will be accessing torrents whereas whole families will be watching Netflix etc on multiple devices. One UHD show could use over 6gb of bandwidth. Multiply that by millions of households and you’ll see why they were asked to lower the bandwidth. It blows my mind that you’re arguing over the quality of content when people are dying. Pathetic.
I watched The Banker yesterday evening and quality was as good as it can get on my 4K OLED TV. Must have gone into effect after I finished (~22:00h).
Yeah, our Internet in Germany is terrible
(I pay for 400 down, 20 up, & these speeds have been solid every day, any time of Day)
I saw this was your first post. Do everyone a favour & make it your last.
Excellent post, personally I think some of the more extreme reactions, not sensible ones, are the result of the liberalist world we now seem to live in. I cannot even start to imagine how this world would react if they said a meteor will wipe us all out in a year..
My broadband seems ok, I believe my COD may have been a little slower last night, but I’d much rather have the bandwidth for my work, now at home, which is in the supply chain for drugs and chemicals, these are necessary for our health service and researches to find vaccines, including Covid 19, and other supplies we provide.
I'm not sure lowering the quality of a video stream is going to be too detrimental to peoples' mental health. If domestic violence arises from this then I'm guessing it was something that was going to happen anyway...
It's shocking how selfish people are. Netflix still looks ok and this will really help people who are working from home and need the bandwidth.
It's shocking how selfish people are. Netflix still looks ok and this will really help people who are working from home and need the bandwidth.
I agree that the ISPs should do something about this, but in the meantime it’s good that companies like Apple, Netflix and Google are helping in their own way.
My company tried to do video conferencing on Tuesday and it was a disaster. Since then we just use audio and even then it’s patchy.Every little helps to keep work going.
Whilst people need entertainment being stuck inside, it is not essential to hog the bandwidth for 4K streaming. They haven’t stopped their services. As for paying extra for 4K and not getting it, that should be directed at Netflix.
Communication is especially important in a time like this, to keep the economy running as much as possible. It might not be a problem normally but once everyone needs lower latency video conferencing at the same time during the day?
It is a non existing problem to begin with, there’s no data backing the claim that there isn’t enough capacity on a wide scale, on the contrary ISPs and researchers say the opposite is true.
The companies doing this is just in it to make more money by lowering their costs.
An ordinary video game is easily 100 GB today. Plus maybe 5 GB of updates per month. For a lot of players, streaming games creates less traffic than running them locally.
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It really about the latency, not the bandwidth. From what I've seen ISPs in the EU usually have enough bandwidth but, with everyone needing live broadcasts (for video game streaming, live streaming, and video conferencing), the quality is going to suffer greatly. Offline game downloads can be higher latency without losing out on much, but anything live is going impact the network a lot. Anything live usually use UDP protocols, which a little like the source shouting into a void, while regular download uses TCP, where the destination will send an acknowledgement back that it is sent. This also means UDP will prioritize the freshness of the data over the quality without checking for lost packets or errors. I've seen the quality of Zoom and other video conferencing tools drop quite a bit over the past few days, and I would much rather work based traffic is prioritized over entertainment in the current situation.
They can just look outside the window - not 480p, not 1080p, not 4k, but infinitely many p's or k's!
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People working from home. Ever heard of that? That's the one part of business that keeps running. People wasting bandwidth are interfering with the only part of the economy that's still going.
Not arguing over the immediate effect (quality of content), arguing about the EU politicians overreaching themselves to mess with non-problems and creating even more government interference where there should be none.
REmember it's in times like these that civil liberties can be abolished by those in power, never to return as people are scared and accept everything because "people are dying".
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The whole point is that the reduction in bandwidth is neither needed, nor helping those in need of a better VPN to their office to work from home to start with.
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