Per Hackingnetflix:
"Netflix's Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt announced a new feature for Netflix's Canadian subscribers that enables them to dramatically lower the bandwidth used by streaming.
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.
We made these changes because many Canadian Internet service providers unfortunately enforce monthly caps on the total amount of data consumed.
In the past, viewing 30 hours of Netflix could consume as much as 70 GBytes, if it was all in HD, and typically about 30 GBytes. While there is some lessening of picture quality with these new settings, the experience continues to be great.
Hunt also goes into detail about the new streaming settings:
We've created three settings:
1. "Good" - The default setting with good picture quality and lowest data use per hour (about 0.3 GBytes/hour)
2. "Better" - Better picture quality and medium data use per hour (about 0.7 GBytes/hour)
3. "Best" - Best picture quality and highest date use per hour (generally about 1.0 GBytes/hour - or up to 2.3 GBytes/hour when streaming HD content)
"
"Netflix's Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt announced a new feature for Netflix's Canadian subscribers that enables them to dramatically lower the bandwidth used by streaming.
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.
We made these changes because many Canadian Internet service providers unfortunately enforce monthly caps on the total amount of data consumed.
In the past, viewing 30 hours of Netflix could consume as much as 70 GBytes, if it was all in HD, and typically about 30 GBytes. While there is some lessening of picture quality with these new settings, the experience continues to be great.
Hunt also goes into detail about the new streaming settings:
We've created three settings:
1. "Good" - The default setting with good picture quality and lowest data use per hour (about 0.3 GBytes/hour)
2. "Better" - Better picture quality and medium data use per hour (about 0.7 GBytes/hour)
3. "Best" - Best picture quality and highest date use per hour (generally about 1.0 GBytes/hour - or up to 2.3 GBytes/hour when streaming HD content)
"
