Google Stadia is one of the trendiest topics last year. The advertisement from Google made it a revolutionary service back in the days. Soon after the service was released it received a lot of controversies. It wasn’t what good describe it to be.

In fact, the gaming community rejected it right from the start. The gameplay was buggy, the service was low, it only supported 720p and 1080p resolution, limited game selection and there were a lot of stutters. With the passage of time, Google has done an amazing job and fixed most of the problems.

Still, the services are no way around the PC Master Race. Google recently announced that they are expanding their services to 20 new devices. This mostly includes high-end smartphone from Samsung, Razer and Asus. Most of these phones are packed with some high-end hardware and software upgrades.

The List of supported devices:

• Samsung Galaxy S8
• Samsung Galaxy S8+
• Samsung Galaxy S8 Active
• Samsung Galaxy S9
• Samsung Galaxy S9+
• Samsung Galaxy S10
• Samsung Galaxy S10+
• Samsung Galaxy S10e
• Samsung Galaxy S20
• Samsung Galaxy S20+
• Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra
• Samsung Galaxy Note 8
• Samsung Galaxy Note 9
• Samsung Galaxy NOTE 10
• Samsung Galaxy Note 10+
• Asus ROG Phone
• Asus ROG Phone 2
• Razer Phone
• Razer Phone 2

There’s no news on other manufacturers or companies. Mostly devices covered are from Samsung. But Google plans to release these services on most Apple devices in the future.

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You can get these services in the following countries including: The US, UK, Sweden, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Canada, Italy, Ireland, and Spain.

Required things:

• 1 High-fi Wifi connection (8 MBPS minimum)
• 1 Stadia Controller
• Google Chromecast Ultra (for TVs)

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You can enable this feature by selecting the “Save Data” feature in the app. Netflix is the most popular streaming service as of today. Its rivals AppleTv and Disney+ are way behind Netflix in terms of quality and movie/show titles.

Netflix is continuously testing new technology to make the streaming service more efficient. The most titles available on Netflix uses the codec H.264 (AVC), VP9 and HEVC. On Netflix mobile app, the streaming technology VP9 is used.

However, starting from today, users can now stream high-quality content thanks to the AV1 upgrade.

What is AV1?

AV1 is an open-source quality free codec technology, that main purpose is to make encoding easier on the internet. The technology offers 20% improved compression efficiency over the previous VP9 encodes.

When do we expect it?

Most of the famous high profile companies, like Mozilla, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Vimeo, Samsung, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple use this encoding system. It is expected that all tech giants will use this system for their next-generation streaming projects.

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Currently, most people can’t enjoy this update. It requires special updates for software and hardware. In software, Google launched a separate decoder for AV1 in Android 10. In terms of hardware, there is a very limited chipset designed to decode AV1.

However, Qualcomm and MediaTek are already working on this technology.

Future of AV1?

In the future, Netflix AV1 plans to roll out this update on iPhone and low-spec devices as well.

YouTube Red also has some limited number of AV1 videos. This is certainly the right step in the direction of newer technology.

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