Whittie
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Bought a Popcorn Hour box a few years back, loved it when it worked, but I think the power supply went, and its just been sat doing nothing since.
What has a similar user interface these days?
Where you can pick a movie you've got downloaded etc, via genre, series, dvd cover etc.
Really want one sorted, ready for winter 
Thanks
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DaveyLC
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AndroidTV
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Whittie
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Those little cheap android boxes do the same thing now?
Any examples Dave?
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John
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Any recent half decent TV should do the same.
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Brett
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IMO Plex is the best and the cheapest way of obtaining what you want if you do the hack on a £9.99 NowTV box. It's what I use. Not only that, it'll also double up as a SkyTV box and do catchup for all the UK providers.
I've got two android boxes also and they're garbage.
[Edited on 20-11-2014 by Brett]
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Any recent half decent TV should do the same.
I would say very few TVs (if any) would be comparable?
The latest cloud media players (previously popcorn hour) are capable of 4K playback.
Are there many TVs that'll play 4K video files, Blu Ray rips etc?
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Cavey
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quote:
Originally posted by Brett
IMO Plex is the best and the cheapest way of obtaining what you want if you do the hack on a £9.99 NowTV box. It's what I use. Not only that, it'll also double up as a SkyTV box and do catchup for all the UK providers.
I've got two android boxes also and they're garbage.
[Edited on 20-11-2014 by Brett]
What he said
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Andrew
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I currently use plex, iPad and Apple TV for AirPlay.
My mate just bought a £60 Android box off Amazon. Want to go and have a play with that over the next few days.
[Edited on 20-11-2014 by Andrew]
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jamied
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quote:
Originally posted by Brett
IMO Plex is the best and the cheapest way of obtaining what you want if you do the hack on a £9.99 NowTV box. It's what I use. Not only that, it'll also double up as a SkyTV box and do catchup for all the UK providers.
I've got two android boxes also and they're garbage.
[Edited on 20-11-2014 by Brett]
Couldn't agree more 
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John
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
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Originally posted by John
Any recent half decent TV should do the same.
I would say very few TVs (if any) would be comparable?
The latest cloud media players (previously popcorn hour) are capable of 4K playback.
Are there many TVs that'll play 4K video files, Blu Ray rips etc?
Not got a 4k TV to test but would guess that 4k TV's play 4k files. My TV plays everything I throw at it and its pretty ancient now, getting on for 4 years.
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Whittie
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My TV can't be half decent as it doesn't do this....
Will take a look at plesk.
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by John
My TV plays everything I throw at it and its pretty ancient now, getting on for 4 years.
As in 1080p 30gb+ mkv files and blu ray rips?
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John
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Yip.
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Bart
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and by BR rips, you mean true blu ray folder structure, BDMV/Certificate folders etc?
which TV is that out of curiosity?
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Munchie
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Men... With this Plex and now TV... Is it just Internet? No aerials needed?
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Andrew
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quote:
Originally posted by Munchie
Men... With this Plex and now TV... Is it just Internet? No aerials needed?
Depends where your server is hosted 
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Cavey
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quote:
Originally posted by Munchie
Men... With this Plex and now TV... Is it just Internet? No aerials needed?
You get the NowTV box, connect to your wifi, install Plex on it, (following instructions from quite a few websites) install Plex server on your PC, set up folders etc... Should then be able to stream everything from your PC to the TV. The NowTV stuff is Sky streaming through it. But is ridiculously expensive, but its purely optional, so don't need to touch it
You essentially get a £40 Roku box for a tenner
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Brett
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I think the movies package is actually reasonably priced, sport not so much. You can save a lot by buying 3/6 month passes on ebay.
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Cavey
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Tbh, only see the Sports adveetised, at £9.99 a day or something ridiculous. Although tbf you can get day passes with 10 packs of Carling which is nice
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John
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
and by BR rips, you mean true blu ray folder structure, BDMV/Certificate folders etc?
which TV is that out of curiosity?
Not sure if I've tried an actual folder structure off a bluray, I'd have to go out of my way to have something in that format.
Samsung d7000 I think it is, my newer 32" one seems to play it all too, no idea what model it is.
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Whittie
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I've decided on a microserver which will run plex. Will take a look on black Friday in-case there's some offers about.
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luciaadr
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If you find an offer post it here. All the microserver deals seem to have finished as I think its been discontinued. I want another but think ive missed the boat
They are pushing the G8 servers now but they're more expensive.
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Whittie
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Will do. Fingers crossed they discount the G8 on Friday somewhere! A bit pricier than the older version.
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Dom
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Gen9's are about to release so if you can, i'd wait a month or two to see if HP do a cashback offer on the Gen8 Microserver.
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by John
quote:
Originally posted by Bart
and by BR rips, you mean true blu ray folder structure, BDMV/Certificate folders etc?
which TV is that out of curiosity?
Not sure if I've tried an actual folder structure off a bluray, I'd have to go out of my way to have something in that format.
This comment re-iterates my original comment, I am yet to see any TV that's comparable to something like the popcorn hour.
If you want to download low res/bit rate rips and that's all your interested in then theres lots of options, TVs, Roku, NowTV, AppleTV etc, but if you want to play the hard core high def, 30+gb rips, native blu ray files, then you'll want something decent like a popcorn hour player.
For me, I didn't spend £2.5k on a TV to watch sub quality videos, so almost everything I download is high quality with big file sizes.
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