Limiting data usage (streaming quality) on Samsung TV

We don't Netflix.

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Why ?

Honest question

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I don't want another subscription service.

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I think he means why do you want to limit data on your TV? I had the same question. Do you have a data cap on your home internet?

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Yes. We a monthly 1.2GB data cap. Currently we use about 700-800 mb/ month.

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I would be more concerned with rectifying this statement before i was concerned about literally anything else

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My statement is fine. We've never gone over. But everything we've watched has been limited to 1080p. Not any longer.

Are you seriously suggesting I audit everything that we do online to make sure it matches with our ISP?

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Yes. We a monthly 1.2GB data cap. Currently we use about 700-800 mb/ month.

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Surely there’s a decimal place issue here. 700-800 MB is like half an hour of 1080p streaming.

Maybe it’s a 1.2 TB cap and you use 700-800 GB?

ETA: I would check your plan and verify whether there’s actually a fee for exceeding the data cap. Some plans will just throttle bandwidth after a certain point. I would also probably give it a month or so to see where your data falls out, as getting true UHD streams isn’t as reliable as you might think.

As for limiting streaming quality - I’m not sure the option you’re looking for exists, at least in the actual TV settings. Maybe check in the network settings but I have a Samsung TV and have not seen the option.

You can do it with an external device by setting the output resolution to 1080p. As someone else said, you could probably force the TV to stick to lower-resolution streams by throttling it to like 15 Mbps at the router.

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Maybe it’s a 1.2 TB cap and you use 700-800 GB?

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That's it.

I am serious and dont call me Shirley

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you know who else has a wide open pipe 24/7?

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Vexus

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I hear you, but I also have a 25+ year old e-mail address with them that would suck to have to get rid of...

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You can still keep using a comcast email

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