The second little bit of news for Canadian Netflixers in lower than 24 hours deals with the opposite pressing issue facing the service inside the Great White North: bandwidth caps. While they exist within the U.S., many Canadian ISPs have set the max amount of knowledge allowed at much lower levels and that they may cut further if a recent CRTC decision on usage-based billing stands . In response, starting today Netflix.ca accounts all have a brand new Manage Video Quality setting that lets users select Good / Better / Best bitrates as defaults for his or her video streams. In accordance with CPO Neil Hunt’s blog post, previously watching 30 hours of Netflix would normally consume as much as 30GB of information, while now it may be as little as 9GB under the “Good” setting. Needless to say, dropping bitrate means lowering picture quality accordingly, despite promises that “the experience remains to be great.” Despite HD and 5.1 audio available, PQ probably isn’t your highest priority in case you’ve turned to streaming, however it continues to be seen if customers find the compromise suitable, and whether an analogous option involves U.S. users facing similarly limited connections .
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