Context; So… Just bought a brand new TV and life is good, but I should have done more research before buying it. I primarily want to use PLEX for watching media on the TV. However, due to “smart TV’s” not being smart and being rather slow because most current TV operating systems are either bloated or just riddled with ads.

Question; So Plex is there, but it runs very poorly. What are the best options out there to get this running smoothly? Are the only options AppleTV and Amazon Firestick? Anyone been in this boat before that have any tips-n-tricks to share?

Ps. I hate ads, so the Firestick is of off the charts.

Much appreciated

  • gregorum@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Having been through several generations of Apple TV, I second this option. They’ve always been pretty great to me with regards to running Plex.

    • whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Oh man, I just had the memory pop in of using Plex on my AppleTV 2 — had to use a side-by-side python script running on the Plex server to make it work. My, how far we’ve come!

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        1 year ago

        Wow, never had that one. My first was an ATV HD, and that was great, as well as its successors.