How do YOU play films on your TV?

Living room - HTPC which also runs a Plex server, using Plex Home Theatre to playback. Also PS4 which I use for Amazon Prime as it's easier and strangely better quality than the HTPC. PS4 doubles as Blu-ray player, no need for a stand alone one. Both Gigabit Ethernet.

Bedroom 1 - Amazon Fire TV Stick with Amazon Prime and Plex. Main PC is in this room and has a Blu-ray drive if needed, though I've never actually used it!

Bedroom 2 - Sky Now TV box with Plex, not checked if it does Prime tbh. PS3 for Blu-ray.

Dining room - Intel NUC with Plex and a web browser. This was my bedroom HTPC but found the Fire TV Stick easier to use in bed!

Last 3 all using Wifi, no issues what so ever.
 
Gen8 Microserver in home office running XPenology which runs Plex Server.
Home Theatre - RaspberryPi2 running RasPlex + LG Bluray player
Lounge - PS4 running plex app to the TV

and then plex web on ipads etc for anywhere else.

Thinking about changing both the RPi2 and the PS4 to AppleTV 4's for the new plex app, but unsure as may go down the NUC route instead, that would free up the RPi2 to go outside so I can put a TV out there in the alfresco.
 
Nas in the back of the garage feeding nucs and android boxes all running kodi. Plays everything flawlessly. I did try plex but transcoding of multiple 1080p content killed it.
 
Orch said:
Man that sounds like my ideal setup.

It baffles me that so many options nowadays don't support 24p.

At the moment mine set up is a crude 10m HDMI cable from PC to Onkyo AV Receiver. :D
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Its like all the devices or rather the services that still don't support HD audio.

Its been around for ages yet services like Netflix and so on don't have it.

Just looking through this thread, it makes me realise what a convoluted area it is now days for watching a movie and yet with all this tech we still don't have things such as hd audio.

I know thats down to the service providers but still.
 
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Kodi ecosystem:

Servers:
- HP Micro Server for central DB and local media storage
- WeTek OpenELEC Box with DVB-S2 which runs TvHeadend as my TV server

Clients:
- Sony Android TV running Kodi
- WeTek OpenELEC running Kodi (same as above TV server)
- Nvidia Shield K1 tablet running Android Kodi
- Ouya which was running Android Kodi - this is out of date now going to replace with WeTek or Shield TV

Additional streaming:
- Chromecast v1
- Chromecast built into Sony TV


Kodi took along time to get running how I wanted and still has its glitches but it gives me everything I want. Kids have it on their tablets with restricted profiles. Everything is available anywhere in the house which is perfect. Now I just need cable rather than slow ADSL.
 
beachBOYken said:
Its like all the devices or rather the services that still don't support HD audio.

Its been around for ages yet services like Netflix and so on don't have it.

Just looking through this thread, it makes me realise what a convoluted area it is now days for watching a movie and yet with all this tech we still don't have things such as hd audio.

I know thats down to the service providers but still.
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no hd audio i can handle, it's the complete lack of RGB limited support from android players that grinds my gears. Luckily the chromecast and firestick dont have that issues.
 
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