An Engadget article talking about Netflix lowering their data consumption on HD streams by 50%.
I wonder if it's enough to allow me to sign up for the service without fear of getting kicked off.
I hope that however this works, it gets licensed out to YouTube and online radio streaming as well. Because for those without Mobilicity's "unlimited" data plan, they stand to save a lot of money!
I watched a couple TV episodes with the Netflix Android app. A 26 min 47 second episode clocked in at 96.8 MB. That's a 493 kbps bitrate.
If 100 MB can last you a full episode on Netflix, I don't think Mobilicity users intending to watch Netflix on the go have anything to worry about. Stream away. Bittorent will probably be slow as hell or not work with their traffic management policies though.
As for Netflix at home, the lowest quality setting consumes approximately 0.3 GB per hour. That's 76.8 MB/15 min so you're fine there too.
You just can't stream with anything more than the lowest setting on your laptop though. The medium setting is 0.7 GB/hour. The high 1 GB/hour. And the HD was 2.3 GB/hour last I checked. But apparently they reduced data consumption for HD (with this new compression techonology they are using, it might consume less data now).
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Originally Posted by John Goedhard
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