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Alternative ways to run Plex?
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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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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.
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.
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.
Huh, I have 2019 and that issue is still not fixed ๐