YouTube announced today that it will reduce its automatic video quality to standard definition (480p) for the next month to reduce the pressure on internet infrastructure brought on by COVID-19 ...

Last week, YouTube announced that it is switching its stream to SD quality worldwide to avoid network congestion. Other major video streaming services also announced a similar reduction in their ...

Last week, YouTube said that it’s defaulting video quality to 480p worldwide to save bandwidth, because more people are watching videos during lockdowns in various countries. Videos will start playing ...

YouTube for Android has now lowered the maximum streaming quality for content in India to just 480p as the country has now gone into full lockdown. [Update 07/16]: So after 4 long months of 480p video ...

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Verizon Wireless will start throttling video streams to resolutions as low as 480p on smartphones this week. Most data plans will get 720p video on smartphones, but customers won't have any option to ...

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One of the things that frequent users of YouTube on their smartphones have wanted for a long time was the ability to choose their default video quality setting. YouTube first announced in June that it ...

T-Mobiles’ Binge On program has gone too far by throttling all streaming video traffic regardless of data plan or network congestion, according to a group of tech industry heavyweights. The Internet ...

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Charter Communications launched its mobile broadband service on June 30, and it’s throttling all video streams to DVD quality. “DVD-quality video streaming is supported. Video typically streams at ...