MUMBAI: Earlier, Dailymotion made the decision to reduce the bandwidth required to broadcast videos on its platform to mitigate the risk of network saturation. The end of the confinement period in France marks a return to normal for the platform which will again broadcast its videos in UHD definition (4K), Full HD (1080p) and HD (720p).  

"As network conditions continue to improve, we will remove the definition limitation introduced in March, country by country,” says Dailymotion COO Guillaume Clément. “The goal is to bring back the highest quality of viewing to our users worldwide by 20 May 2020.”

To prevent network saturation during the Covid2019 pandemic, video portal Dailymotion had rolled out limits to video quality available for streaming on its platform in March. With millions of people under the shelter-at-home directive, the world's internet infrastructure was under stress. To reduce the pressure, major streaming services including Netflix, YouTube made video qualities to SD