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Netflix Adds Lower-Quality Streams for Bandwidth-conscious Canadians

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"Canadian ISPs are notorious for subjecting their users to atrociously low data caps. Needless to say, some of the more restrictive data plans are unfavorable to bandwidth-intensive activities like watching streaming movies. Mindful of this fact, Netflix has now launched a new video quality management option for its Canadian users, letting them select the video quality that best suits their data budget."

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I found this over at the Roku forum and it gives a great breakdown of bandwidth http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=38686

At the "Good" numbers they mentioned with the AT&T and Comcast caps could stream:

150 GB / 0.3 GBytes/hour = 500 Hours a month
250 GB / 0.3 GBytes/hour = 833 Hours a month

At the "Best" Numbers in HD
150 GB / 2.3 GBytes/hour = 65 Hours a month
250 GB / 2.3 GBytes/hour = 108 Hours a month
 
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