Why does video chat (skype, etc.) appear to be so low in quality compared to video streaming (netflix, etc.)

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I dont understand why when your watching the even a live stream, like on Twitch, the video quality is very good, but when your trying to video chat with someone else the quality is so much worse. What about the two way video chat makes it so hard to get consistent hd and audio?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

One thing not mentioned is that the audio quality is prioritized in a video call. The video being bad quality is far less important than laggy, choppy audio.

So those services will put a minimum amount of resources in producing good audio and the rest of the pipe is for video.

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