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> The only thing that it fails on is remembering where I am in a series. So for eg. Blackadder I'd rather just stick on Netflix thank play in VLC You can easil

> The only thing that it fails on is remembering where I am in a series. So for eg. Blackadder I'd rather just stick on Netflix thank play in VLC You can easily solve that one with something like Plex :-)

FussyZeus 9y ago
Upvote for Plex. Setting up a Plex box in my house was astonishingly easy and we now use that more than Netflix.
- rocqua 9y ago
  Yep, only issue I have is that I now forget my netflix series because when I go to plex, my progress with those series isn't tracked or shown.
- compton_effect 9y ago
  plus if you I guess do want to pirate, sonarr and radarr are freaking amazing to have a long with a plex server.
- nobleach 9y ago
  I've noticed Plex has stopped working with my TVs. It's kinda a bummer that the only help, that those on forums are willing to give is "buy a better TV". Is spending another 700 bucks really a tenable solution?
  - FussyZeus 9y ago
    Apple TV Gen 4 has a Plex app that works extremely well. Still $130 to put down but you also get all the other things it does.
  - chadgeidel 9y ago
    It's not a great solution, but there are several "streaming sticks" like the Roku, Chromecast, or FireTV for less than $50 you can buy and plug into your current TV.
- LordKano 9y ago
  I had been hearing about Plex for a while and when I bought a Seagate Personal Cloud drive, I decided to give it a try. I like it. I have moved a lot of media to it and I can watch it all at my convenience from multiple devices or computers in my house. I have young children and after they destroyed several of the kid-movie DVDs I gave them, this was a godsend.
petepete 9y ago
Can you install Plex in a standalone fashion, or do you need to set up a server and client? With Kodi it'd just be a case of install and point it at your media directories.
- JustSomeNobody 9y ago
  If you don't mind using a web client (and you shouldn't, it's pretty good), you can install the Plex server on your machine and then open the web client on the same machine.

FussyZeus 9y ago

Upvote for Plex. Setting up a Plex box in my house was astonishingly easy and we now use that more than Netflix.

rocqua 9y ago
Yep, only issue I have is that I now forget my netflix series because when I go to plex, my progress with those series isn't tracked or shown.
compton_effect 9y ago
plus if you I guess do want to pirate, sonarr and radarr are freaking amazing to have a long with a plex server.
nobleach 9y ago
I've noticed Plex has stopped working with my TVs. It's kinda a bummer that the only help, that those on forums are willing to give is "buy a better TV". Is spending another 700 bucks really a tenable solution?
- FussyZeus 9y ago
  Apple TV Gen 4 has a Plex app that works extremely well. Still $130 to put down but you also get all the other things it does.
- chadgeidel 9y ago
  It's not a great solution, but there are several "streaming sticks" like the Roku, Chromecast, or FireTV for less than $50 you can buy and plug into your current TV.
LordKano 9y ago
I had been hearing about Plex for a while and when I bought a Seagate Personal Cloud drive, I decided to give it a try. I like it. I have moved a lot of media to it and I can watch it all at my convenience from multiple devices or computers in my house. I have young children and after they destroyed several of the kid-movie DVDs I gave them, this was a godsend.

petepete 9y ago

Can you install Plex in a standalone fashion, or do you need to set up a server and client? With Kodi it'd just be a case of install and point it at your media directories.

JustSomeNobody 9y ago
If you don't mind using a web client (and you shouldn't, it's pretty good), you can install the Plex server on your machine and then open the web client on the same machine.