Well, Covid19 has managed to do the unthinkable –
– all sports and events are cancelled; all bars and restaurants are boarded up; and (mostly) we are stuck at home, in the sunniest April in living memory. So, we are turning to other entertainment – streams and streams of the stuff.
The lockdown is also one of the reasons why Disney+ in the UK has hit 50% of its five-year launch target in its first few months. And it has introduced millions of us to the joys of Zoom and Houseparty (and the very real risk of mixing up the unmute and hang-up buttons). Meanwhile Netflix added nearly 16 million new subscribers in the first quarter — double its forecast.
The huge demand has meant that most streaming services have had to throttle the quality of their bandwidth to cope with the demand. Under normal circumstances, there would have been an outcry – but the reaction has actually been a quiet muttering of “please don’t go off air… please don’t go off air”.
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