Netflix cuts data use on Canada streaming service (Reuters)

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:01 AM

TORONTO (Reuters) – Movie property consort Netflix Inc has made adjustments to its river recording moving assist to revilement downbound on the turn of accumulation it uses in a country where cyberspace usage is typically metered.

Netflix said its moving assist in Canada module today ingest two-thirds less accumulation on average, with exclusive a bottom impact to recording quality.

Thirty hours of moving films or television would typically ingest 31 gigabytes of data; it would today ingest exclusive 9 gigabytes, Netflix said in an email dispatched to customers on Monday.

Netflix noted that this would fall substantially beneath the accumulation caps of most river cyberspace assist providers. river cyberspace providers typically delude monthly cyberspace packages allowing between 20 and 60 gigabytes.

On Monday, one of the biggest providers, BCE Inc, dropped its organisation to pass on usage-based billing to its indiscriminate customers, which often delude oceanic packages.

(Reporting by Euan Rocha and Alastair Sharp, editing by Gerald E. McCormick)


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