The health crisis we are going through globally affects all spheres of society. We have already seen these days ago that productions decreased, that most stores have closed for security and, of course, that the quarantine applies to a large number of countries and states around the world. This has caused us to run into some problems with the connections and bandwidth used by many companies. One of them is Apple TV + which has opted for reduce the quality of your transmissions to alleviate network overload in Europe, although the result is being dire.
The quality of Apple TV + is conspicuous by its absence due to COVID-19
Internet use has increased by almost 50% and mobile voice calls by another 50%. Additionally, mobile data usage has increased by a quarter. These data are of special relevance because infrastructures have to support twice as many connections. In addition, there are many connections that go to common services such as Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime or Apple TV +. That is why the administrations urge to do responsible use of the network because at the end of the day it is another part of the problem in this stage of public health crisis, an effort on the part of all.
Because of this, the European administrations offered instructions to the different streaming service companies to reduce bandwidth usage in Europe in order to alleviate the tension in the connections. Services such as Netflix or HBO have already begun to reduce the quality of their reproductions and now it is the turn of Apple TV +. Remember that Apple's streaming service offers content in 4K and HD without subscriptions, that is, for all users it is the same quality.
However, with this reduction in bandwidth usage Apple TV + has drastically reduced the quality of its broadcasts you can see artifacts and blurry elements in each of them. Compared to the change made by other services, Apple TV + is the most drastic change and the most noticeable by far. The experts assure that the quality that the service of the great apple is offering is the one that we would obtain with a device connected to a 3G network with such low resolutions with a maximum of 670 pixels high.