Staying home became necessary now as he was forced Corona Virus Everyone is new to not leaving their homes for fear of contracting the coronavirus that has spread all over the world, and when you are confined to the house and have an Internet connection, what you will do is start a broadcast service such as Netflix or Amazon or open YouTube to see videos and find out the news and stay in front of it for hours. But imagine what will happen when most of the world's population uses the Internet at the same time to watch online?


Corona and home isolation

Home isolation for many users around the world, will make them start playing videos from the Internet, and this will add a large burden on the Internet, which may then lead to slow Internet for many users and then the collapse of the entire Internet.

It was agreed between the European Union and Netflix in the beginning that the quality of the video display will be reduced from HD to low quality SD in an attempt to reduce pressure on the Internet and prevent its collapse completely, and low quality will work for the next XNUMX days, and a few hours ago, Google agreed. The other is to reduce the resolution of the videos on YouTube in Europe, and this means that users will watch the videos on YouTube in SD, and after that, Amazon also joined and announced that it will reduce the transmission rate in order to conserve the bandwidth.

You can imagine that watching TV shows on Netflix in SD quality consumes 1 gigabyte of data per hour, while watching in HD quality consumes 3 gigabytes of data per hour, and thus the transition to lower quality will help the resilience of the Internet infrastructure.


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Broadcast services

The step taken by services such as Netflix and YouTube will reduce the amount of Internet consumption in Europe by 25%, especially since Netflix already consumes more than 12% of the downloads on the Internet around the world, but what about other countries, many countries in the Middle East and North America are still In their homes due to the Coronavirus, and if they turn to broadcast and video services, the Internet infrastructure may not bear these pressures.

Have you visited a streaming service recently and noticed the lack of high quality viewing, and do you feel that the internet is really slowing down? Share your experience with us in the comments.

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