Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

As I said in the Stadia thread, with the big streaming TV companies been asked to reduced their quality delivery and Sony limiting their downloads on PSN to cause less strain on ISP's because so many people are now working from home. The big guys at Google must be thinking now world is definitely not ready for cloud gaming services.

Physical gaming boxes will be here for a while yet.
 
malachi said:
As I said in the Stadia thread, with the big streaming TV companies been asked to reduced their quality delivery and Sony limiting their downloads on PSN to cause less strain on ISP's because so many people are now working from home. The big guys at Google must be thinking now world is definitely not ready for cloud gaming services.

Physical gaming boxes will be here for a while yet.
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If that is true, they're slow learners for tech giants.
 
I remember many, many years ago when BT Vision was kicking off, the engineer said the infrastructure wasn't ready for all the video demand. Yet, here we are. Struggling.
 
V F said:
I remember many, many years ago when BT Vision was kicking off, the engineer said the infrastructure wasn't ready for all the video demand. Yet, here we are. Struggling.
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Mmm, but the consumer unknowingly signed up for a 15Mb/s compromise/version of the original 4khdr (100Mb/s+ peak) master,
afaik the current stream quality is still deemed equivalent only to a physical blue-ray
 
bignev72 said:
Has anyone actually noticed any drop in quality on Netflix? I haven't noticed any difference.
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See few posts above and I noticed from last week before they officially announced it.

If you are watching on a smaller size TV such as 50" or below then you probably wouldn't notice. On my 65" OLED TV, yes I noticed and I don't have the best eyes either.
 
Watching Our planet in 4K HDR and the bitrate is 7.62Mbps. When it first starts it reads 7.10 Mbps/1440, then quickly changes to 7.62 Mpbs/2160.

what’s the usual 4K HDR bitrate on Netflix then, and what do UHD Blu-rays typically run at?
 
I think 4k blu ray, even standard blu ray are well above 15.25. I've not watched any netflix recently, but a 50% cut must look crap on large TVs. Streaming 4k was already worse than standard blu rays anyway.
 
it's still adaptive - even if they've cut peak 15Mb/s -25% -> 11Mb/s
... so if the network capacity is not sustaining 11Mb/s , it can drop to 7Mb/s
 
Having watched kingdom season 2 last night, 4 episodes in and it’s absolutely fantastic.
But the quality has degraded somewhat I found. Tbf my eyesight is bad as it is but in my 65” oled screen it wasn’t as sharp as it normally is ie pre corona virus.

I’ve also noticed Disney+ quality isn’t that great either. Mandalorian doesn’t look that sharp but it’s hard to say as we only got it just after the corona virus hit.
 
The picture jumps between 480p to 1080p scene by scene.

Some shots all the edges are really pixellated....their servers must be struggling.
 
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