Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs

Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs by ihuman on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @10:12AM (#20695729)

I agree for a single person streaming 1080p and lower. However, the move to 4K and HDR are causing data consumption rates to rise to the point where 1TB isn't sustainable, especially if you have family sharing the same network and streaming at the same time. Here's how long you it takes to stream 1TB of video with Youtube's various resolutions/bitrates/framerates:

  1080p:      370-740 Hours @30fps, 246-494 Hours @60fps
  1440p (2K): 171-370 Hours @30fps, 123-247 Hours @60fps
  2160p (4K):  65-171 Hours @30fps,  44-111 Hours @60fps

Source: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853702

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Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs by jeroenhd on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @11:39AM (#20696674)

1080p streaming on other services will reach the 1TB cap much quicker. YouTube compression is much more intense than Netflix compression, depending on the show: Netflix picks optimal compression parameters based on the type of show or movie you're watching.

With my tendencies to watch a lot of video content, I myself easily hit over 1.5TB of data consumption each month. Luckily my ISP doesn't do any data caps so I don't have to worry.

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Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs by 99052882514569 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @11:07AM (#20696317)

Okay, make it 4 TB. My point is, ISPs imposing a cap is reasonable and a way to get the outliers to pay for more of the hardware/personnel required to service their extreme bandwidth requirements.

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Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs by zzzcpan on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @11:14AM (#20696386)

Note that for an ISP a 1 TB of data doesn't even cost a dollar. It's unreasonable to ask even a $1 for a TB of overages.

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