Re:The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar
by sumtechguy on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:40AM
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Once you get past a particular point of number of movies management becomes a problem. For awhile I was using carousels from sony. But kodi/plex have a decent interface with ease of management. You usually only need a NAS if you get past a particular size of files.
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Re:The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar
by cgriswald on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:50AM
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I run a Plex server. My question isn’t about the value Plex adds in general. It’s about the value it adds if you are regularly removing things (and potentially re-ripping in the future) due to limited storage.
Re:The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar
by sumtechguy on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @11:07AM
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The GUI is nice to use. Plex and it brother KODI have a nice skinning/metadata system. That metadata looks very nice. They are one of the better players out there. Even if you have to rotate. You could use something like VLC or mediacenter but the user exp is just not as good. For my setup I could get away with a VLC and a folder of stuff and just drag and drop it. But that 10ft aggregated view is why I use it. If you just want to watch stuff and then blow it away then it would not be worth the hassle of setup.