Today in the times that we are living is very important do not saturate the network so that those who have to work from home can do it with total normality and in addition to this it is necessary to keep the population distracted with their series, movies and other types of content so that they avoid leaving home and that is more bearable.
The quality of content broadcasting has a great impact on network saturation at peak times of maximum use, so the European Union requested that services such as Netflix lower the quality of their content to avoid saturation, although it is true no one talks about a fee drop according to this loss of quality ...
Well, now YouTube is the next to reduce the quality of streaming video in Europe to avoid collapse during the coronavirus quarantine. In this case, it is different from what we can see on Netflix since people or at least most people do not pay to use this service, so in principle the measure does not seem bad at all and if we can see quality content standard for avoid high bandwidth consumption So perfect.
Netflix would be implementing this measure for areas in which broadband is fairer to reach everyone, but we already said that they should also adjust prices in case you are paying to watch content in 4k and they lower the video quality. At the moment this is not discussed in the measures but it is expected that in the end they will end up adopting measures. For now everything to help in this pandemic We look favorably on it, but we don't want companies to take advantage of the goodwill of millions of people.
Youtube would be close to implementing this measure as well indicated in Reuters, so do not be surprised if you see YouTube content streaming from Mac with lower resolution than usual, not that the Mac has problems, is that YouTube is limiting it.
