Planning on streaming all weekend? Netflix and YouTube is cutting bitrates in Europe to hel꧃p ease the load on bandwidth usage due to more people than usual worki🃏ng from home and self-isolating in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

For the next 30 days, you are likely to see a small – possibly unnoticeable – reduction in streaming quality as Netflix is scaling back on data usage by a quarter. T👍he same applies to YouTube, with reporting that "all traffic" will be switched to standard definition "by default."

So, what are bitrates and how does that af💯fect you?

In layman’s terms, a bitrate is the amount of ‘bits’ of data that can be processed in a cওertain amount of time. You’ve probably seen your internet speeds vary from 20 megabits per second (mb/s) to 100 mb/s and beyond, depending on what broadband p🐻ackage you’re on. 

Notice how sometimes video streaming get pixelated when your internet speed drops? Same deal here with Netflix. Think of it as a slight cap for everyone in case of o🌊verload, with picture quality dropping from t💎ime to time.

That likely won’t matter to most. If you have the standard HD streaming package, the difference will be negligible. It’s those that have Ultra HD/4K packages that will be potentially worse off. 4K, inevitably, requires more data which may not be available during the downtime – so a short-term downgrade may𝓰 be worth considering over🗹 the next month or so if you're not happy with the quality.

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