I'm very fond of my Roku Ultra, which I bought a couple of years ago when it was on sale and my older Roku was increasingly creaky.
Normally, my next recommendation would be the PlayOn Media Library application and Roku channel, which is a free thing that lets you stream video (and audio and photo) files from your computer to your television. However, that service is currently glitching, and Roku and PlayOn each insist that the problem is at the other's end. Very annoying. (PlayOn also has a bunch of for-pay features that I never use.)
So yesterday, I installed Plex. Plex does much the same thing, but the interface is entirely different. The controls to make files available to Plex are much less intuitive than PlayOn, but the the Roku interface is much more powerful and sophisticated.
You might think about trying Plex (or see if PlayOn works for you) if you have stuff on your computer that you'd like to watch on your TV.
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Date: 2020-12-05 08:06 pm (UTC)Normally, my next recommendation would be the PlayOn Media Library application and Roku channel, which is a free thing that lets you stream video (and audio and photo) files from your computer to your television. However, that service is currently glitching, and Roku and PlayOn each insist that the problem is at the other's end. Very annoying. (PlayOn also has a bunch of for-pay features that I never use.)
So yesterday, I installed Plex. Plex does much the same thing, but the interface is entirely different. The controls to make files available to Plex are much less intuitive than PlayOn, but the the Roku interface is much more powerful and sophisticated.
You might think about trying Plex (or see if PlayOn works for you) if you have stuff on your computer that you'd like to watch on your TV.