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Upgrading My Plex Server With a new TerraMaster NAS and Seagate IronWolf Pro Drives!
It’s been a while now, but earlier this year we had three storms pretty much back to back. The end result of this was a damaged roof tile, some blown-over garden furniture, and my NAS died. The NAS itself went utterly bonkers and won’t even load the login screen, and…
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NVIDIA Says Shield TV Android 11 Fix is Coming
I’m a big fan and long-time user of the Nvidia Shield TV, and I love that Nvidia has continued to support it for all these years, as it’s still one of the best media players out there! However, with the release of Android 11 on the system last week, all…
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Plex VR ‘Watch Together’ Feature Adds Cross-Platform Support
Cross-Platform and Virtual Surround Features Added Plex VR’s Watch Together feature is finally getting cross-platform support, available now to Plex Pass subscribers. This means you can now watch Plex content together with friends in Virtual Reality, even though they own a different VR hardware. This is great news since Plex…
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PLEX for KODI is Now Free—No Longer Requires Subscription
Those running their own media center is undoubtedly familiar with both PLEX or KODI. Unfortunately however, using one with the other requires having a Plex Pass subscription. While using the standalone server app itself is free, extra features such as streaming remotely and PLEX apps are extra. This cost $4.99…
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Plex Introduces Live TV Support
In a boon to cord cutters, popular client-server media player Plex has added live TV support. Plex Live TV, currently in beta, will complement the player’s recently introduced DVR functionality. A Plex Pass subscription – plus a digital tuner and aerial – is required to access live TV using Plex.…
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The Plex Skill for Amazon Alexa is Here!
Good news everyone, as Amazon Alexa has just got one of the greatest skills to date! The team at Plex have just released their Alexa Skill, allowing you to ask for your favourite music, movies, TV shows and more with a few short voice commands. “Get rid of all those…
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PLEX Demonstrate Home Media Software at CES 2017
Plex had a booth at Pepcom at CES 2017, and while the company hasn’t got anything new to show right now, they’re still eager to get their name out to the world and show off what they can do. We’re big fans of PLEX here at eTeknix, and seeing it…
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Create A Media Center Solution – Thecus N4810
Introduction Long gone are the times where your NAS only served the single purpose of holding all your files in a centralized location. Today’s NAS are equipped with powerful processors that can do so much more than serve you your files and thanks to their built-in iGPU they are even…
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ASUSTOR AS3104T 4-Bay SOHO NAS Review
Introduction We recently had a look at ASUSTOR’s AS3102T 2-bay NAS and today it is time to take a look at the bigger brother that can hold double the amount of raw storage with its 4 bays, the AS3104T. The ASUSTOR AS3104T is built around an Intel Celeron 1.6 GHz dual-core…
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Nvidia’s New Shield TV Update Enables Stand-Alone Plex Support
If you want to be able to stream local media to a TV, Plex is definitely a great solution, but the problem with this particular service is that it relies on a PC that needs to be turned on at all times in order to act as a server component.…
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tvOS Will Bring Plex Support to Apple TV
Following Apple’s unveiling of the tvOS platform, we can reveal that Apple TV will be getting support for popular media streaming system Plex. The release of tvOS beta and the tvOS Software Development Kit (SDK) means that Plex can finally develop a version of its software for Apple TV. Plex…
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Plex to Allow Free SSL Encryption
Plex gave its users an important security upgrade last week. The home media streaming platform announced that all its users are getting free SSL certificates, enabling them to connect to their media over an encrypted HTTPS connection. The new feature is a partnership with certificate authority DigiCert, Plex says the…
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WD Adds Plex Media Server Support for My Cloud Line Up
WD has made their My Cloud lineup of personal storage servers even better with the addition of the Plex Media Server. Plex is a very popular entertainment app and My Cloud users can now enjoy it too. Plex organizes video, music and photos from personal media libraries and streams them to…
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Plex Announces Music Streaming Service @ CES2015
Plex are well known in the technology world for their multipurpose multimedia software. Plex is great for streaming music and movies from your NAS, desktop PC or other storage device to your phone, smart TV or pretty much anywhere, but their service is about to get a whole lot better.…
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