Netflix has a very important announcement for all subscribers who have Android phones, the American company making an extremely important change that comes as an extremely good surprise for these customers. Netflix has started streaming video in the Android application in AV1 format, a special video codec that allows movies and series to be uploaded with a much lower consumption of internet bandwidth, so that people can see more content.
Netflix has implemented this special codec for some of the movies and series that it has available through the application for Android, so for now not all content is targeted. However, those who use the Netflix application on Android phones, most likely also tablets, can activate a new function called "Save Data", using this AV1 video codec to load movies and series with a lower consumption of Internet traffic.
Netflix: ANNOUNCEMENT for ALL Subscribers with Android Phones
Netflix wants to bring this AV1 codec to all subscribers who watch his movies and series on iPhone phones, iPad tablets, computers with Windows, or MacOS, but everything is done with difficulty. The problem with this new codec from Netflix is that it would somewhat spoil the quality of the movies and series that users watch, but this is to be expected, considering that the internet traffic is greatly reduced thanks to this option.
“Today we're excited to announce that Netflix has started streaming AV1 on our Android mobile app. AV1 is a high-performance, royalty-free video codec that offers 20% improved compression efficiency over VP9 codecs † Our support for AV1 represents Netflix's continued investment in delivering the most efficient and highest quality video streams.”
Netflix is in the early stages of the implementation process of this standard, and according to information about AV1, it also requires a lot of processing power to play content in HD format. This is a problem for phones and tablets, because the Netflix application could consume a lot of energy from their batteries to play the content with a low consumption of internet traffic, so I don't think users want that.
Netflix for now, he has not detailed the list of Android phones that can play content in this format, nor how he plans to extend the functionality to more terminal models in the future, so we still have to wait.
