Can't have us watching movies and tv on the net, thus avoiding their overpriced cable offerings, now can we?
The only bright light for now is more and more people see the crap the providers are up to.
Netflix is lowering its default setting for downloading movies and TV shows in Canada in response to internet service providers' monthly caps on the total amount of data consumed.
In a blog posted Monday, Netflix chief product officer Neil Hunt said starting immediately, streaming from Netflix will use two-thirds less data on average.
"Now Canadians can watch 30 hours of streaming from Netflix in a month that will consume only 9 GBytes of data, well below most data caps," he wrote, stressing that it would still be possible for users to change their default setting to the best quality.
Under the highest-quality default setting, viewing 30 hours could consume as much as 70 GB, if it was all in high definition. But more typically, 30 hours would use about 30 GB.
Usage-based billing has been making headlines in this country as the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission holds hearings on the issue.
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With all the cable companies in my area, here's what's happening. Bell wants to charge you more money and give you less bandwidth (like Telus and the other big telecommunications companies). On the other hand, TekSavvy and other independent companies want to charge you less money and give you unlimited bandwidth. However, Bell got the government to make that impossible.
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