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[GoldenGlove]

Do what I do. Buy a 5tb portable hdd and a Nvidia Sheild Android TV Pro. Then use Kodi as the software to watch your movies and tv shows. It works real well. It even supports DV HDR, but not DV right out, so only download DV HDR or HDR files. Most places have all options. The Nvidia Shield is like one of the best components I've ever bought. Plug in your portable hdd, open up Kodi, find the file, play it. It's very simple. Kodi is better than VLC. Kodi is the shyt.

Do you download the files directly to the HDD or transfer them over from your machine? Do you keep the drive running/plugged into the Shield all day?

I have a Shield in my bedroom too, I vouch for it 100%.

My family room TV has Android TV also so I probably could try that and set up and see if it would work.

Was looking up cheap miniPCs and so many looked shady with spyware or malware pre-installed

 

[Ciggavelli]

Do you download the files directly to the HDD or transfer them over from your machine? Do you keep the drive running plugged into the Shield all day?

I have a Shield in my bedroom too, I vouch for it 100%.

My family room TV has Android TV also so I probably could try that and set up and see if it would work.

Was looking up cheap miniPCs and so many looked shady with spyware or malware pre-installed

I download the files on my main pc, put them on my hdd, then connect it to my shield. I don't keep the hdd on my shield all day.

If you're looking to download files directly on a HTPC, maybe that's the way to go.

Honestly, I just find my site, download that shyt onto my HDD, and then plug it into my Shield.

A HTPC is cool though. You could probably just build one. Size is a matter though. You gotta fit it in. I have a music server (24tb of ssd) and it's fukking amazing (it was expensive though....$15k). The convenience factor is big. I could not do without my dedicated music server. I stream it all over my house. It's amazing.

Honestly, you're probably downloading 15-60gb for a 4k movie. The hdd is too slow. You just download it on your ssd, use winrar or whatever, let it uncompress and then put it on your hdd. Decompressing files on a hdd is a bad look. Just download that shyt on your pc, spend like 5 minutes transferring it to your portable hdd, plug it into the Shield and be good.

People have servers for this though, but I don't like the buffering you get with wifi. I just want it direct.

You might be able to plug that shyt directly into your Android TV, but TVs sometimes have limits to the file size. Like my old LG Oled, I could only play files that were less than 5gb. That's not gonna work for UHD blu-ray rips.

Really, I'd just buy another Shield Pro and call it a day. You're probably gonna have to use Kodi on a server anyway. Just make sure you never download DV, only download DV HDR or HDR.

 

[Ciggavelli]

This makes me think of the TV stealing game. The TV stealing people have that shyt on lock. I get like everything in 4K DV HDR like 10 minutes after it airs. The TV stealing people are the shyt. The community is large though. You can get anything within like 10 minutes of airing. It's crazy.

I subscribe to all the streaming services, because I feel bad about stealing their TV, but I'd much rather have the local file in 4K than streaming with potential buffers.

The TV stealing people know what's up. They are so good at it. You can have all the TV you ever wanted, from every country, as long as you have a rapidgator account. $49 buck for 6 months is well worth it. I never stream shyt. I just download it, put it on my hdd, and then play it through my Shield Pro. It works real well.

 

[GoldenGlove]

I download the files on my main pc, put them on my hdd, then connect it to my shield. I don't keep the hdd on my shield all day.

If you're looking to download files directly on a HTPC, maybe that's the way to go.

Honestly, I just find my site, download that shyt onto my HDD, and then plug it into my Shield.

A HTPC is cool though. You could probably just build one. Size is a matter though. You gotta fit it in. I have a music server (24tb of ssd) and it's fukking amazing (it was expensive though....$15k). The convenience factor is big. I could not do without my dedicated music server. I stream it all over my house. It's amazing.

Honestly, you're probably downloading 15-60gb for a 4k movie. The hdd is too slow. You just download it on your ssd, use winrar or whatever, let it uncompress and then put it on your hdd. Decompressing files on a hdd is a bad look. Just download that shyt on your pc, spend like 5 minutes transferring it to your portable hdd, plug it into the Shield and be good.

People have servers for this though, but I don't like the buffering you get with wifi. I just want it direct.

You might be able to plug that shyt directly into your Android TV, but TVs sometimes have limits to the file size. Like my old LG Oled, I could only play files that were less than 5gb. That's not gonna work for UHD blu-ray rips.

Really, I'd just buy another Shield Pro and call it a day. You're probably gonna have to use Kodi on a server anyway. Just make sure you never download DV, only download DV HDR or HDR.

Yes, the buffering over WiFi is why I'm investing to just play direct.

I bought an ASUS NUC Pro (definitely overkill but fukk it). I just want to download the big 4K rips your mentioning and not worry about the steam shytting the bed over WiFi. Plex has been hit or miss over the years, my home internet also seems to just be unstable over the last year. It's gotten to the point that I grab 1080p rips because I don't want to have people sitting through a struggle viewing of a movie... And even then, sometimes those files are hanging.

Hopefully this option for playing direct eliminates all those issues and I can watch my content without experiencing hiccups

 

[GoldenGlove]

This makes me think of the TV stealing game. The TV stealing people have that shyt on lock. I get like everything in 4K DV HDR like 10 minutes after it airs. The TV stealing people are the shyt. The community is large though. You can get anything within like 10 minutes of airing. It's crazy.

I subscribe to all the streaming services, because I feel bad about stealing their TV, but I'd much rather have the local file in 4K than streaming with potential buffers.

The TV stealing people know what's up. They are so good at it. You can have all the TV you ever wanted, from every country, as long as you have a rapidgator account. $49 buck for 6 months is well worth it. I never stream shyt. I just download it, put it on my hdd, and then play it through my Shield Pro. It works real well.

Yeah, and you get everything without breaks/ads

 

[Ciggavelli]

Yes, the buffering over WiFi is why I'm investing to just play direct.

I bought an ASUS NUC Pro (definitely overkill but fukk it). I just want to download the big 4K rips your mentioning and not worry about the steam shytting the bed over WiFi. Plex has been hit or miss over the years, my home internet also seems to just be unstable over the last year. It's gotten to the point that I grab 1080p rips because I don't want to have people sitting through a struggle viewing of a movie... And even then, sometimes those files are hanging.

Hopefully this option for playing direct eliminates all those issues and I can watch my content without experiencing hiccups

It will. Local files are the way to go. I never experience buffering on my Shield Pro, even with 80gb UHD rips.