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While I'm sure there's some point if you have multiple TVs and want to watch a bunch of different stuff at the same time and all, personally I've sticked to my old ass method of having a PC connected to a TV directly and just playing videos off that. I did switch like 10years ago to a NUC from Intel which is like a super small and cheap PC, with an external hard drive on USB. I like that it's literally a PC so I can run Firefox and download torrents with it directly like I used to when I just used my real PC, and also got a fairly small Microsoft wireless keyboard with a touchpad integrated so can just do whatever from my couch.
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I have a Nvidia Shield Pro in the living room hooked up to the TV. The Shield has KODI on it for interacting with the NAS. The NAS is (5) 8tb HDD's in RAID5 with (4) 2TB SSD's in RAID10 for buffering. We CAN watch a bunch of different stuff at the same time. I've watched one 4K video here in my game room while my wife watched another different 4K video AND I've done read/writes to this thing without any stuttering. This is the 1st time I didn't try to 'cheap out' on anything storage related. I also removed the shit 4gb of RAM it came with and replaced it with 16GB, which is the max amount the NAS can use. Only way to make things faster is to run fiber all over the house.
 
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Pyros said:
While I'm sure there's some point if you have multiple TVs and want to watch a bunch of different stuff at the same time and all, personally I've sticked to my old ass method of having a PC connected to a TV directly and just playing videos off that. I did switch like 10years ago to a NUC from Intel which is like a super small and cheap PC, with an external hard drive on USB. I like that it's literally a PC so I can run Firefox and download torrents with it directly like I used to when I just used my real PC, and also got a fairly small Microsoft wireless keyboard with a touchpad integrated so can just do whatever from my couch.
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This is my main setup, and I use multiplicity to compliment it. I'll never go back to a TV's busted ass UI.
 
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Picked up one of these. Let's see how it goes!

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Picked up one of these. Let's see how it goes!

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I can’t even tell what this is for. Grip strength workout device?
 
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Hekotat

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what is the NAS? its been a while since i looked into pirate adjacent things
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Basically a box filled with hard drives that you can direct remotely to download torrents as well as use as a streaming server for your home network.

They're probably even more clever these days. I havent had one in over a decade.
 
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Basically a box filled with hard drives that you can direct remotely to download torrents as well as use as a streaming server for your home network.

They're probably even more clever these days. I havent had one in over a decade.
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Can you stream it to your tv? I have a Sony X90J and I wonder if I could stream it to that?
 
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INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS said:
Can you stream it to your tv? I have a Sony X90J and I wonder if I could stream it to that?
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I had mine directly connected to my TV at the time with an hdmi. Im aure you can stream it over cat6 or wifi. Like I said its been awhile just do some research there are tons of companies and options.
 
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For most people here, building a media pc is probably superior to a nas. Put a relatively cheap video card in it and it can stream to any device. TVs can struggle processing compressed files in my experience, but maybe they are better now.
 
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Are you gentlemen openly discussing breaking the 7th Commandment?
 
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Dont worry sir. We are all inside the fishing string AND we put the sin into a chicken.
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Careful now, to Jews the 7th commandment is adultery. People might get ideas of what sins you are putting in the chicken.
 
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Yall, im trying to focus on this chicken and i keep getting distracted
 
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Fucker said:
Colonel Sander's secret recipe
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Kajiimagi said:
I have a Nvidia Shield Pro in the living room hooked up to the TV. The Shield has KODI on it for interacting with the NAS. The NAS is (5) 8tb HDD's in RAID5 with (4) 2TB SSD's in RAID10 for buffering. We CAN watch a bunch of different stuff at the same time. I've watched one 4K video here in my game room while my wife watched another different 4K video AND I've done read/writes to this thing without any stuttering. This is the 1st time I didn't try to 'cheap out' on anything storage related. I also removed the shit 4gb of RAM it came with and replaced it with 16GB, which is the max amount the NAS can use. Only way to make things faster is to run fiber all over the house.
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Woah. You RAID for buffering?? How?

I have trouble watching 4K stuff bc (I assume) buffering issues.
 
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