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Renita_Holmes
New Contributor
5 years ago

Has anyone else noticed that different streaming channels eat up more or less data?

I check my data every day, just crazy that way and notice that if I watch some streaming channels they use a lot more data, such as yesterday I watched Peacock and it used the same amount of data as ...
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Superbigwaff
Contributor
5 years ago

Different streaming services may use different video codecs (encode / compress / uncompress / decode) depending on your streaming device's support for different codecs. The amount of data is directly related to the codec used.