YouTube will start 480p videos worldwide

You know the story, the largest streaming service providers were asked by the EU to reduce the quality of the video stream to “relax” the internet, which would be under increased pressure these days, as more and more people work from home.

Well, it also complied with YouTube and originally in Europe and now it looks like it will do it worldwide.

They will not reduce the video quality but will start all the videos on 480p from the start This means that you will be able to manually upgrade to a higher quality but you will have to do it every time.

If I had to choose, 720p would have been the starting value for the videos, not 480p. Because yes, I agree with Vali, in many situations you don’t need more than 720p.