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

  • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    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.worksEnglish
      5·
      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.worldEnglish
        1·
        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.