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How much data is used to stream a video?
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Tuesday, July 9th, 2019
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How much data gets used to stream a full length movie?
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Honored Contributor III
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6 years ago
It depends. Is the movie 480p, 720p, 1080p, 3840, 7680? Encoded with HD Audio? What’s the running time of the movie? Who is the provider?
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Here is Cox's Data Usage Calculator.
It shows that if you stream 2 hours of HD video (Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, etc.) every day for a month, you would use 180 GB (6 GB for a 2 hour movie).
Does it account for re-transmissions due to lost packets?
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Bruce
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It depends. Is the movie 480p, 720p, 1080p, 3840, 7680? Encoded with HD Audio? What’s the running time of the movie? Who is the provider?
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CurtB
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6 years ago
Here is Cox's Data Usage Calculator.
It shows that if you stream 2 hours of HD video (Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, etc.) every day for a month, you would use 180 GB (6 GB for a 2 hour movie).
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