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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by doldols on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:20AM (#31040563)
Plex actually requires 0 maintenance, it’s the radarr/sonarr bit which deals with content acquisition that’s often a hassle. (Still infinitely better than having to manually choose and download torrents)

Even a network share would take more work to set up than Plex.

Why Plex? Easy set up, vastly better UI than a network share, works from outside the home. I travel often and frequently benefit from the transcoding feature when dealing with shitty hotel wifi. Friends love it too.

Playing directly from a regular computer isn’t a very good option due to shit format support.

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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by navjack27 on Friday April 15, 2022 @11:38AM (#31041422)
How is playing directly from a computer not a good option? All of my computers on my network are sharing all of their drives all the time and I just go on to other computers drives to get things and I double click them and they play on every computer on my network from Linux to Mac to Windows from H264, 65, vp9, av1... Anything.
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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by doldols on Friday April 15, 2022 @12:24PM (#31042101)
Because you will lose out on things like dolby vision, even dolby atmos can be a pain in the ass to get working.

Can you even properly playback 4K HDR content from Linux? I don’t think so.

Format support on desktop platforms is awful.

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