How much data is used to stream a video?
How much data gets used to stream a full length movie?
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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?
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?
