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Limiting data usage (streaming quality) on Samsung TV
Posted on 5/18/24 at 8:52 pm
Posted on 5/18/24 at 8:52 pm
Got a good deal on a new Samsung TV last week. Is there anyway to force the TV or apps (mainly Prime video and YouTube) to run at 1080p vs 4k? I could do it on my old one, but can't figure it out on this one. It might not be an option.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
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Posted on 5/19/24 at 9:34 am to Lonnie Utah
The cheaper Netflix plans would likely be your answer. I don't think the lower plans support 4k. It adjust automatically to connection speed. Also maybe you can limit the bandwidth to the device under your router settings.
This post was edited on 5/19/24 at 9:36 am
Posted on 5/19/24 at 10:05 am to LEASTBAY
We don't Netflix.
Posted on 5/20/24 at 7:00 am to Lonnie Utah
Why would you want to limit ?
Honest question
Honest question
This post was edited on 5/20/24 at 7:46 am
Posted on 5/20/24 at 7:16 am to GrammarKnotsi
quote:
Why ?
Honest question
I don't want another subscription service.
Posted on 5/20/24 at 7:29 am to Lonnie Utah
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I don't want another subscription service.
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?
Posted on 5/20/24 at 10:58 am to lostinbr
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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?
Yes. We a monthly 1.2GB data cap. Currently we use about 700-800 mb/ month.
Posted on 5/20/24 at 11:35 am to Lonnie Utah
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Yes. We a monthly 1.2GB data cap. Currently we use about 700-800 mb/ month.
I would be more concerned with rectifying this statement before i was concerned about literally anything else
Posted on 5/20/24 at 11:48 am to GrammarKnotsi
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I would be more concerned with rectifying this statement before i was concerned about literally anything else
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?
Posted on 5/20/24 at 12:04 pm to Lonnie Utah
quote:
Yes. We a monthly 1.2GB data cap. Currently we use about 700-800 mb/ month.
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.
This post was edited on 5/20/24 at 12:16 pm
Posted on 5/20/24 at 12:11 pm to Lonnie Utah
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Are you seriously suggesting I audit everything that we do online to make sure it matches with our ISP?
No, I'm saying that if you are paying more than $20 a month for what you laid out here, your priority should be elsewhere...
If you are this tight, just stream on your phones and sell the tv
Posted on 5/20/24 at 1:24 pm to lostinbr
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Maybe it’s a 1.2 TB cap and you use 700-800 GB?
That's it.
Posted on 5/20/24 at 1:25 pm to GrammarKnotsi
(no message)
This post was edited on 5/20/24 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 5/20/24 at 2:43 pm to lostinbr
I am serious and dont call me Shirley
Posted on 5/20/24 at 2:53 pm to Lonnie Utah
i cant even imagine living under comcast's aribitrary and ridiculous data cap.
i think i routintely hit 4-5TB a month without even trying. i blame my plex server users
but no, i used to 'turn off the digital spigot' every time i'd walk into a room and some random Blippie episode was playing in 4K on youtube to an empty room
i paid more than my fair share of those shitty overage charges.
frick comcast.
ATT Fiber 1Gbit up *AND* down; no bullshite, no data caps. just a wide open pipe 24/7.
you know who else has a wide open pipe 24/7?
i think i routintely hit 4-5TB a month without even trying. i blame my plex server users
but no, i used to 'turn off the digital spigot' every time i'd walk into a room and some random Blippie episode was playing in 4K on youtube to an empty room
i paid more than my fair share of those shitty overage charges.
frick comcast. ATT Fiber 1Gbit up *AND* down; no bullshite, no data caps. just a wide open pipe 24/7.
you know who else has a wide open pipe 24/7?
Posted on 5/20/24 at 3:40 pm to CAD703X
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you know who else has a wide open pipe 24/7?
Vexus
Posted on 5/20/24 at 4:06 pm to CAD703X
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i cant even imagine living under comcast's aribitrary and ridiculous data cap.
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...
Posted on 5/20/24 at 4:40 pm to Lonnie Utah
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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...
You can still keep using a comcast email
Use Xfinity Email if you've disconnected your service
As a former Xfinity customer, you can still use your Xfinity Email address if you logged in to your account using the Xfinity Email website in the 90 days prior to disconnecting your service. Your email account will remain active if you access it using the Xfinity Email website at least once every nine months.
Primary and secondary accounts
Just like your primary email account, your additional email accounts must also be accessed using the Xfinity Email website in the 90 days prior to your disconnecting service to continue to use your Xfinity Email account.
Posted on 6/7/24 at 8:42 am to Lonnie Utah
Connect your TV via an ethernet cable. Samsung TVs ethernet port (along with most brands as well) is a 100mbs port, so that may lower the bandwidth used at least somewhat. Although technically I think you can get 4K on much lower speeds too, so no fail proof.
This post was edited on 6/7/24 at 8:44 am
Posted on 6/7/24 at 8:51 am to MStant1
comcast implemented the '1tb cap' aka BLOCKBUSTER LATE FEES 15+ years ago here in nashville.
lucky me, our market was the 'test market' before they rolled this out to everyone else.
in 15 years, we've gone from 720p being ubiquitus to 1080..4K..and now there are lots of 8k videos on YT and YT usage has gone through the ROOF. pretty sure there's not a person on the planet who doesn't watch at least one YT video a day.
in addition, our appetite for streaming services has gone from a hobbled netflix to about 15 different ones including lots of free streaming services like PlutoTV.
we have also shifted to a WFH paradigm and routinely find ourselves on video conferences for HOURS and HOURS a day in addition to handling much larger files.
HOW HAS COMCAST RESPONDED?
HOW?
they moved the cap from 1TB to 1.25TB
frick.
YOU.
eat a bag of fricking rancid dicks, comcast.
ETA its the SEVENTH of JUNE
THANK YOU ATT I LOVE YOU ATT
lucky me, our market was the 'test market' before they rolled this out to everyone else.
in 15 years, we've gone from 720p being ubiquitus to 1080..4K..and now there are lots of 8k videos on YT and YT usage has gone through the ROOF. pretty sure there's not a person on the planet who doesn't watch at least one YT video a day.
in addition, our appetite for streaming services has gone from a hobbled netflix to about 15 different ones including lots of free streaming services like PlutoTV.
we have also shifted to a WFH paradigm and routinely find ourselves on video conferences for HOURS and HOURS a day in addition to handling much larger files.
HOW HAS COMCAST RESPONDED?
HOW?
they moved the cap from 1TB to 1.25TB
frick.
YOU.
eat a bag of fricking rancid dicks, comcast.
ETA its the SEVENTH of JUNE
THANK YOU ATT
I LOVE YOU ATT This post was edited on 6/7/24 at 9:00 am
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