Netflix cuts data use on Canada streaming service (Reuters)

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:01 AM

TORONTO (Reuters) – Movie property consort Netflix Inc has prefabricated adjustments to its river video streaming assist to cut down on the amount of accumulation it uses in a land where cyberspace practice is typically metered.

Netflix said its streaming assist in Canada module today ingest two-thirds inferior accumulation on average, with exclusive a bottom effect to video quality.

Thirty hours of streaming films or broadcasting 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 start well 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, digit of the biggest providers, BCE Inc, dropped its organisation to pass on usage-based asking to its wholesale customers, which ofttimes delude oceanic packages.

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


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