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AppleTV complete replacement opinions (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi and hope all are well today. First, thanks in advance for any / all responses. Second, apologies if this isn’t the best place to ask this question.

I’m curious if anyone, has moved completely from using an AppleTV to something else. Current use case for the ATV is a few streaming apps (Crunchyroll / HiDive, Tubi, etc.) and Apple Arcade (a few casual games).

If you did completely switch, what did you decide on using? Did you go back to buying movies / using a DVD/Blu-Ray player, setup a mini PC and stream from websites / rip music and movies, use a gaming console instead, etc.?

Exploring options and entertaining thoughts for right now. Again, thanks and have a good day / evening.

Edit - 2024/01/01 - Just wanted to thank everyone for the lively discussion and resources (links, recommendations, etc.) related to my question.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Appreciate your comment, and that seems like a common setup. If you didn't have the ATV, what would you front end the Plex server with? I have a Synology router and would probably buy a Synology NAS, if I went that route.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would go with Jellyfin instead of Plex. It's open source and works great

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Adding that to my to-do list for research, thank you for the post!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you keep using your Apple TV and switch to Jellyfin as a backend, the Infuse application has been amazing. It’s free with a premium version (that does offer a lifetime license).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Appreciate the details on Infuse. Still looking at all the options, thanks for the response!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Actually with a Synology NAS you don’t need Plex, they have a built in equivalent called DS Video with apps for Apple TV, iOS, Android, etc!

I’ve had an Nvidia shield in the past as well and it works reasonably well, but the video experience is definitely better on the Apple TV. The Android boxes make more sense if you want a place to install emulators that also occasionally streams.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thank you for this! I'll look more at the Synology NAS devices and see what that's all about. I'm probably the other way around, stream more, and emulate once in a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

DS video is much worse than Plex in my experience, it's not even close. The only upside is getting hardware transcoding for free, but that's about it.