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Originally Posted by ApK
For myself, I don't want to run a transcoding server, and in the case of Plex specifically, I found the server setup and configuration, with it's online account component, complicated.
Don't get me wrong: I'm a geek, I could get it working if I wanted to, but I'm only interested in solutions that don't require a geek to setup and maintain. I want an appliance, else I'll be on family tech support duty when we want to be relaxing with a movie.
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Ditto.
Plus it ties up a whole PC.
These days you don't *need* a PC to serve up files.
Routers with NAS and standalone ethernet drives are dirt cheap.
(Right now I can put 19TB of content on my home network, accessible to phones, tablets, streamers, consoles, and PCs without a PC server or middleman app of service. When my WHS PC died, I just copied the files to a USB drive and plugged it straight to the router.)
I tried PLEX pro but the added value doesn't justify the cost or the hoops, much less the overhead.
Also the client interface on the stick is so sparse you can't honestly call it a gui.
The Lotus 1-2-3 lightbar was more infirmative.