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#315852 22-Aug-2024 20:28

Wife has a TV in her home office but has run out of ports on her laptop to push anything to it (has 2x screens connected).

So thought I'd use my Pi3 which is doing nothing.... but its not powerful enough to handle Plex properly. (Rasplex no longer an option)

What else is out there thats extremely budget minded but will happily run as a Plex client/TVNZOnDemand. I am looking at building her a desktop for the home office, but shes holding off on that until she starts her study next year...

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#3274579 22-Aug-2024 20:36

What about something like this? No dedicated GPU, but still.....$80?

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#3274580 22-Aug-2024 20:41

imho apple tv and Infuse. everything is direct play and never skips a beat. ive tried a lot and this hands down works best for me. you also get access to app store for other services like tvnz, skysport apps

Balm its gone!

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#3274581 22-Aug-2024 20:44

Depending on budget - just by a Fire TV Stick - I find them better then the Chromecasts with Google TV. Best performance though is an Apple TV device.

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#3274592 22-Aug-2024 21:40

My kids are using the 1080p Chromecast with Google TV's as Plex clients without issue, I think they were about $60 from memory.

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#3274618 22-Aug-2024 22:24

@xpd - actually I misread your post.

I run Plex and TVNZ+ on Chromecast HD without issue. Also setup Plex on a friends LG TV, using HP desktop as media server.

So another vote for Chromecast

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#3274645 23-Aug-2024 06:47

Cheers all, will look at a Chromecast... think we have a couple at work not being used, so might be able to buy one of those.

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