Facebook, Instagram and Disney+ also reduce the quality of the videos

In recent weeks we have seen how several of the largest companies streaming of the world have decided to lower the quality of the videos of their services at the request of the European Union.

You’ll see worse Netflix if you live in Europe: is the fault of the coronavirus

The large increase in the use of the Internet in Europe has done to Netflix to dispense with the maximum quality of broadcast in your movies and series on this continent.

The reason has been clear, to avoid the collapse of the telecommunications networks, which these days are suffering from an increase in the use as had never been seen before, due to the increasingly numerous quarantines enacted in the old continent.

FACEBOOK reduces the quality of your videos

The company, led by Mark Zuckerbeg has confirmed to Reuters that their platforms will use a type of lower bitrate for the videos you serve. The bitrate is the space per minute that occupies each video.

This way you can maintain the pace of requests, or increase, without saturating networks. The price we pay is a lower quality display.

This modification will affect both the videos of the social network, Facebook, as of Instagram, and this is relevant since in this application the higher consumption of data, component of away, videos.

The reduction of the bit rate will be 25% and will last for the time being, 30 days.

Disney+ heals in health prior to your arrival

Another of the companies that has announced that it will have lower quality than expected is Disney+, that will come tomorrow day 24 in Spain.

It had been speculated that the company might delay your arrival as has happened in France, where it has postponed the launch two weeks. Not been well, and the Spanish subsidiary has confirmed that it will arrive when scheduled.

We tried Disney+ on Android: this is the streaming service Disney

We have tested Disney+ the streaming service of the american giant in Android, and these are our impressions about it.

Yes, like other companies, it will do so with a lower bitrate so you can’t enjoy your content at maximum quality until the situation changes. In particular there will be a reduction of 25%.

Given the state of alarm, literally, in which we find ourselves, seems to us an acceptable measure.

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