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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1235959" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>Agreed… thus my qualifier that I hadn't watched it all the way through. I'll probably have to redo it. 7 GB may be more than it can cache anyway, with the 8GB drive it has. Might not even be enough free space. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Color me green with envy. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> I wouldn't mind something a bit larger than my 50 incher, but I just wouldn't have adequate room to the sides for my speakers. At that 67" size, I can say I certainly wouldn't be satisfied with 720p. Well unless I was sitting 20 feet away. lol!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, I'm not real crazy about how long it takes to download. It's definitely not a good way to go for impulse rentals.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I haven't tried, but I'm under the impression that you can't stream rentals like that.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I tried every trick in the book, and then some. It just wasn't the wi-fi. I have a Time Capsule and everything is 802.11n compliant. I saw some improvements by defragging the media drive (it was 60% fragmented… I kid ye not!); sticking to mounting with AFP (SMB and FTP both proved slower); and by utilizing an <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/airport-networking-wireless/204142-improve-your-802-11n-speeds-using-wpa2-vs-wpa-wep.html" target="_blank">interesting tip I read</a> to use WPA2 in the security settings. It was actually quite amazing the difference that made. All these helped out quite a bit, but I still had occasional laggards and eventually had enough.</p><p></p><p>One other thing that irritated the living **** out of me was the bizarre way Plex handles anamorphic rips that don't have square pixels (DVDs most typically). Most people don't notice it, but it's actually off by 20% in width, and you have to make an adjustment in the "Pixel Ratio" setting to correct it. XBMC does the same thing, and with Plex being a fork of XBMC, that's where it started. Now the iOS version of Plex actually does handle these correctly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1235959, member: 38864"] Agreed… thus my qualifier that I hadn't watched it all the way through. I'll probably have to redo it. 7 GB may be more than it can cache anyway, with the 8GB drive it has. Might not even be enough free space. Color me green with envy. :D I wouldn't mind something a bit larger than my 50 incher, but I just wouldn't have adequate room to the sides for my speakers. At that 67" size, I can say I certainly wouldn't be satisfied with 720p. Well unless I was sitting 20 feet away. lol! Yeah, I'm not real crazy about how long it takes to download. It's definitely not a good way to go for impulse rentals. I haven't tried, but I'm under the impression that you can't stream rentals like that. I tried every trick in the book, and then some. It just wasn't the wi-fi. I have a Time Capsule and everything is 802.11n compliant. I saw some improvements by defragging the media drive (it was 60% fragmented… I kid ye not!); sticking to mounting with AFP (SMB and FTP both proved slower); and by utilizing an [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/airport-networking-wireless/204142-improve-your-802-11n-speeds-using-wpa2-vs-wpa-wep.html"]interesting tip I read[/URL] to use WPA2 in the security settings. It was actually quite amazing the difference that made. All these helped out quite a bit, but I still had occasional laggards and eventually had enough. One other thing that irritated the living **** out of me was the bizarre way Plex handles anamorphic rips that don't have square pixels (DVDs most typically). Most people don't notice it, but it's actually off by 20% in width, and you have to make an adjustment in the "Pixel Ratio" setting to correct it. XBMC does the same thing, and with Plex being a fork of XBMC, that's where it started. Now the iOS version of Plex actually does handle these correctly. [/QUOTE]
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