On March 19, Netflix announced a decrease in the speed of all its content for a period of 30 days. This followed a request from the European Union to avoid network overload. However, in view of the extension of the lockdown, the decline in image quality has also been prolonged. The American multinational has nevertheless, during this health crisis, invested heavily in its broadcasting capacity.
Netflix is gradually returning to normal quality
Following the deconfinement, Netflix announced that it was working with Internet service providers to restore the original quality. However, only a few countries are currently affected by this return to normalcy. These are Premium subscribers living in Norway, Germany and Denmark. According to FlatpanelsHD, they can view content with 4K HDR quality and a bandwidth of 15 Mbps. 
For other European countries, FlatpanelsHD has indicated that depending on subscriptions and content, quality can go up. Despite this, the speed cannot go beyond 7.62 Mb/s. To reassure everyone, Nelflix announced that it would do its utmost to restore the original quality. All this as quickly as possible! Recall that beyond the drop in quality of videos, Disney+ had to delay its launch by several days. A decision that had not failed to annoy many people, but which had been taken to avoid completely saturating the network. Apple TV+, YouTube and Amazon Prime Video had also respected the European Union's request to reduce the quality of their images. Last month, Apple was the first to increase the quality of its Apple TV+ content.
