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YouTube is following Netflix by reducing streaming quality due to coronavirus:
YouTube is following Netflix's lead in cutting the quality of its video streaming from high definition to standard in the European Union, it confirmed to CNET, as the bloc's leaders try to reduce strain on the internet during the coronavirus outbreak. Since more people are working from home and children are staying out of school, internet usage has spiked.
"We are in ongoing conversations with the regulators, governments and network operators all over Europe, and are making a commitment to temporarily default all traffic in the UK and the EU to standard definition," the Google-owned video streaming service said in a statement.
The service said it had seen "only a few usage peaks," but is reducing the default quality in the EU for 30 days. Video quality can still be manually adjusted.
European Commissioner Thierry Breton called on streaming services to switch to standard definition "when HD is not necessary" on Thursday. YouTube decided to reduce its default streaming quality after Breton spoke to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube boss Susan Wojcicki, as previously reported by Reuters.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @12:20PM (1 child)
The wheel of time series they are making right now is so Woke it is likely none of them sleep. Showrunner Rafe Judkins has said “As much as possible, our cast should look like America will in a few hundred years — a beautiful mix of white, brown, black and everything in between.” which makes you wonder if he has read the series with a massive infection of social justice in case anyone is offended by the series as it was written decades ago in a more darker and less friendly LGBTI time.
The author of the series is noted to have modeled the characters on famous actors. Egwene was described as Audrey Hepburn at age 18. Nynaeve was described as a young Jacqueline Bisset and Perrin Aybara was a young Val Kilmer. Andor is the the local equivalent of medieval England. This must be fixed, of course. We can't go around making a series after an author has died and actually create a show on the screen as it is in the books. We must bow to the struggles of our society on this planet at this time and show in this creation that we have evolved past our history.
What I find really fantastic is that in a series renowned for not having the crappy racist attitudes we see every day has managed to introduce them right from the start. It says a lot about our society.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday March 23 2020, @12:00AM
It's interesting to witness how contemporary movies and series feature tons of mental masturbations and citations and subtexts while the end result manages to look shallower than an early 80s b-movie.
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