{"id":251933,"date":"2018-03-12T08:25:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T06:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=251933"},"modified":"2018-03-12T09:05:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T07:05:43","slug":"how-netflix-saves-your-mobile-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/251933-how-netflix-saves-your-mobile-data.html","title":{"rendered":"How Netflix saves your mobile data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix runs six cellular sites in its mobile device lab in California, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/digital\/news\/netflix-success-secrets-1202721847\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This lets the company test its services under a variety of Wi-Fi and mobile data conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix also uses Faraday-cage-like boxes which filter out external interference and prevent the cellular test sites from interfering with phone reception in the rest of the Netflix campus.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix&#8217;s testing follows the recently re-encoding of its entire library, on a per-scene basis, to optimise videos for mobile viewing.<\/p>\n<p>It told Variety it\u00a0segments videos into shots for analysis, which allows them to stream an\u00a0action scene at a higher bit rate than scenes with less motion &#8211; saving a lot of data.<\/p>\n<p>The result is that a few years ago, 10 hours of Netflix video was about 4GB of mobile data &#8211; now users get up to 26 hours of video for the same amount.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/251205-netflix-per-series-pin-locks-launched.html\">Netflix per-series PIN locks launched<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix runs six cellular sites in its mobile device lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":236520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49317],"tags":[2054],"class_list":["post-251933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251971,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251933\/revisions\/251971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}