Comment on Alternative ways to run Plex?
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I will always recommend the Nvidia Shield. It works significantly better than any other streaming device I have or have used. You can also host your Plex server on it directly if that’s a use case you’re interested in.
Any Android TV device is going to have ads on the launcher now because Google sucks, but you can just install a third party launcher and set it as the default to get around that.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Shield fan as well, but “will always recommend” is pretty strong wording considering it’s pretty much an abandoned product from Nvidia’s perspective. I don’t know that it will be very future proof, but for now it’s great for running plex as a server or otherwise and although it hasn’t been updated in many years, the upscaling algorithm to bump 1080 to 4k remains unparalleled.
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean sure, I’ll recommend them for as long as they continue to work, but I’m still using the first model I bought back in 2015 and the only issue I have with it is needing to reboot it once every few months because it’ll stop connecting over Ethernet.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Huh, I have 2019 and that issue is still not fixed 🙁