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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More One day after launching its new livestreaming app Periscope, Twitter has ...

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 ...

Cheapest plan limits video to 480p, and there’s no way to watch 1080p on a phone anymore Cheapest plan limits video to 480p, and there’s no way to watch 1080p on a phone anymore Chris Welch is a ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio, ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

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 ...

A lot of the time, when we record a video with our smartphones or even a camera, it is not perfect. There may be some noise and grains, some not-so-lit areas, and many other fringe elements that can ...