Plex on the New Apple TV

Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by zuxfer on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @01:32AM (#10497943)

Doesn't Kodi(XMBC) do all that, for free, and without installing any software ?

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Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by cavisne on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @02:08AM (#10498036)

Plex is significantly better than XBMC, it's night and day.

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Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by cthalupa on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @03:24AM (#10498237)

Plex is significantly different than XBMC. Plex is a media streaming/transcoding platform and organizer. XBMC (or Kodi) is a local media player and organizer.

A properly configured Kodi setup is far more flexible than Plex and offers a lot of significant advantages (PsuedoTV, for example) as well as a larger set of supported formats and playback options.

I use both pretty extensively and the idea of trying to replace either one with the other is distasteful. Different tools for different jobs.

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Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by zuxfer on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @11:20AM (#10500528)

kodi has pseudoTv too.

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Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by cthalupa on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:57PM (#10503028)

Plex is the one that doesn't have PsuedoTV

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Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by izacus on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:31AM (#10498424)

Huh? Is it? Every time I tried Plex is was more limited and clunky when it came to media library organization. And it required me to install software on my NAS.

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Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by zuxfer on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @11:18AM (#10500518)

nope it isn't. Kodi is more customizable.

Plex is easy to install, but Kodi is much more advanced and powerful. Atleast it is for my fire stick and home network

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