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Curbing excessive bandwidth usage?

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    Curbing excessive bandwidth usage?

    Hello all,

    I have been using Vudu for some time now, just never needed to post anything until now.

    So my wife sends me a text while at work saying the internet is down. She then goes to the computer and gets a nice little welcome screen on our browser saying we have excessively high usage. She then tells me that last months usage is 1100 gigs. I say no flipping way its that high. Sure enough it is!! Wow, the wife and kids watch way too much TV at home while I work.

    Anyways I have a nice collection of movies on Vudu and the family watches them all the time, mainly for convenience of having a list and selecting a movie instead of fumbling through discs. So what can I do to curtail my bandwidth usage and still enjoy vudu? I know I can use the vudu to go app on my PC but that does no good for my entertainment center in our bedroom. We have a Samsung Smart TV (2011 model) and a Samsung Blu Ray Player (HT-FM53) which we use to watch Vudu through. I did see that there are blu ray player with hard drives that vudu supports, problem is my blu ray player is also my 5.1 receiver so replacing it is not really an option. Could I maybe hook up a portable hard drive to my samsung TV and download vudu movies to it? Or maybe I could somehow download the movies on my PC and still use the blu ray app to play the videos from my PC (its all networked)?

    Any thoughts appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Kris

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    Re: Curbing excessive bandwidth usage?

    Some network players have internal hard drives that you can download movies to. The xBox does, and so does the Western Digital Live Hub player. It's discontinued, but you can still get it on amazon.com

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      #3
      Re: Curbing excessive bandwidth usage?

      To be honest, the best option is to rip your movie collection to your hard drive(s) and use a conversion tool to compress them into smaller files. You don't necessarily have to do the conversions (they can take a looooooong time, especially for blu-rays), but it makes them more portable across different devices. You can then serve up the files from a PC or NAS to every DLNA capable device in the house.

      Situations like these are a big reason they need to stop dragging their feet and release the stupid CFF.

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