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I'm going to be traveling for a few weeks and I'd like to stream Netflix from my iPad Pro to a hotel TV. I looked into the Lightning Digital AV Adapter but, according to the reviews, video is quite degraded. Therefore I've been considering other options. Since a 3rd generation Apple TV can be had for not much more than the cost of the AV adapter, I was thinking that perhaps I would try AirPlay instead. I'm wondering if others have traveled with Apple TV and whether it's necessary to use wifi with Apple TV. In other words, can I connect my iPad to the hotel wifi and then use AirPlay to stream video to Apple TV, which will be connected to the TV using an HDMI cable? Does anyone have any other creative solutions for streaming video to a hotel TV? Thank you very much for your help.

For Airplay, the Apple TV must be on the same network as the iPad. Wired Ethernet or Wifi, your choice. The streaming between the iPad and the Apple TV is done on the wifi network, NOT between the 2 devices wirelessly.

Also, if you didn't know this, AND I am sure a lot of Netflix users don't, if you go into your Netflix account from a web browser or a web browser on your computer, and log into your Netflix account, you CAN change the streaming quality of Netflix to all of your devices to have it stream to a higher quality.

For better quality the Hotel Wifi in your room would need to be able to handle the extra bandwidth from its Internet servers to handle better quality video at say 8-9 and 10-12 Mbps for HD quality looking video on screen.

We pay for 25 Mbps Wifi streaming service and our local Home Wifi with normal video streaming and other devices on the Internet doing whatever, never exceeds 20-22 Mbps of our paid monthly broadband Internet service.

This setting will still give you a good picture onscreen. You'll only notice the lower quality difference at close visual range. At normal viewing distances the streamed picture should still look fine at the Standard definition setting.

If you stream Netflix from your iPad at Standard definition and you get occasional blocky picture or intermittent stutter or buffering 1-3 times during the length of a full feature movie, leave the Netflix playback quality on Standard.

If you can't get Netflix to stream out of your iPad to the hotel TV at all in High or Standard video definition, you will have no choice, but to try Netflix's Auto or Low streaming settings which may yield a less than ideal picture on the TV.

Using a streaming box like Apple TV and using Airplay won't change those factors if Wifi speeds on the Hotel's Wireless network are at peak use by guests and creates limited WiFi speeds/bandwidth/bottlenecks.

Actually, you can use peer-to-peer AirPlay by turning on Bluetooth on the iOS device. See How to use AirPlay on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support. The device locates ATV over Bluetooth and they establish a direct link on channel 149, independent of the network. The ATV may not be happy with no network connection, but it ought to work. The catch for the OP would be if the Netflix app blocks AirPlay. Certainly, the cleanest solution would be a direct HDMI connection.

Hi guys. The Microsoft Edge is my favorite browser of all times, really, but not when I try to watch netflix or other video streaming services, it always breaks, I have no ideia what to do anymore. Always when I try to play something there's an error and then I need to reload over and over again, sometimes even when I just play the video it stop working when I try to play again. Help me to keep using this best browser that I've ever seen.

I've ever tried to disable hardware acceleration, enable DRM content, install Microsoft Silverlight and a lot of other things, but I didn't get to watch so far without an error I keep receiving these error codes: D7356-7701 and others related. Is there's still something that can be done to really fix theses erros or I just have to be patient and wait for news versions of the browser?

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Even before millions were confined to their homes by a global pandemic, improvements in internet connections and service offerings had led to an exponential increase in the use of streaming video around the world. With few options left for entertainment, streaming services are taking off. In this commentary, we examine the carbon footprint of these services.

Streaming services are associated with energy use and carbon emissions from devices, network infrastructure and data centres. Yet, contrary to a slew of recent misleading media coverage, the climate impacts of streaming video remain relatively modest, particularly compared to other activities and sectors.

Drawing on our analysis and other credible sources, we expose the flawed assumptions in one widely reported estimate of the emissions from watching 30 minutes of Netflix. These exaggerate the actual climate impact by up 90 times.

The relatively low climate impact of streaming video today is thanks to rapid improvements in the energy efficiency of data centres, networks and devices. But slowing efficiency gains, rebound effects and new demands from emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain, raise increasing concerns about the overall environmental impacts of the sector over the coming decades.

Update 11/12/2020: The energy intensity figures for data centres and data transmission networks were updated to reflect more recent data and research. As a result, the central IEA estimate for one hour of streaming video in 2019 is now 36gCO2, down from 82gCO2 in the original analysis published in February 2020. The updated charts and comparisons also include the corrected values published by The Shift Project in June 2020, as well as other recent estimates quoted by the media.

Looking at electricity consumption alone, the original Shift Project figures imply that one hour of Netflix consumes 6.1 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity. This is enough to drive a Tesla Model S more than 30km, power an LED lightbulb constantly for a month, or boil a kettle once a day for nearly three months. The corrected figures imply that one hour of Netflix consumes 0.8 kWh.

With 167 million Netflix subscribers watching an average of two hours per day, the corrected Shift Project figures imply that Netflix streaming consumes around 94 terawatt hours (TWh) per year, which is 200 times larger than figures reported by Netflix (0.45TWh in 2019).

The assumptions behind the Shift Project analysis (largely based on a 2015 paper, whose assumptions have been significantly revised in 2019 and 2020) contain a series of flaws, which, taken together, seriously exaggerate the electricity consumed by streaming video.

This difference stemmed from a stated assumption of 3Mbps apparently being converted in error to 3 megabytes per second, MBps, with each byte equivalent to eight bits. The Shift Project corrected this error in their June 2020 update, but did not revise any of their other assumptions, discussed below.

The Shift Project analysis overestimates the energy intensity of data centres and content delivery networks (CDNs) that serve streaming video to consumers by around 35-fold, relative to figures derived from 2019 Netflix electricity consumption data and subscriber usage data.

My original February 2020 analysis showed that the Shift Project assumptions for data transmission energy intensity (0.15-0.88 kWh/GB) were much higher than more recent estimates (0.025-0.23kWh/GB). However, the latest research shows that these data-based intensity values (kWh/GB) are not appropriate for estimating the network energy use of high bitrate applications such as streaming video. Instead, experts advise using time-based energy intensity values (kWh per viewing hour). Therefore, my assumptions for data transmission energy use have been updated with time-based energy intensity values.

Taken together, my updated analysis suggests that streaming a Netflix video in 2019 typically consumed around 0.077 kWh of electricity per hour, some 80-times less than the original estimate by the Shift Project (6.1 kWh) and 10-times less than the corrected estimated (0.78 kWh), as shown in the chart, below left. The results are highly sensitive to the choice of viewing device, type of network connection and resolution, as shown in the chart, below right.

The IEA estimate is also substantially lower than other estimates quoted in the media, including 22-times lower than the Despacito claim (cited on Channel 4, the BBC, Fortune, and Al Jazeera, assuming a global average grid mix) and 11-times lower than the claim by Save On Energy that 80 million views of Birdbox emitted 66ktCO2 (cited in the New Yorker, Euronews, Forbes, Die Welt, and the Daily Mail). My estimate of 36gCO2 per hour is over 2100-times lower than Marks et al. (2020) who estimated that 35 hours of HD video emits 2.68tCO2, or 77kgCO2 per hour.

But as the chart above shows, this figure depends heavily on the generation mix of the country in question. In France, where around 90% of electricity comes from low-carbon sources, the emissions would be around 2gCO2e, equivalent to 10 metres of driving.

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