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Is the best way to broadcast a signal to a TV still something like Chromecast?
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So you bought a new TV and it has no HDMI inputs?
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We had a lightning strike nearby about six months after we bought it and gradually all of the ports on the box went dead. There are no backup ports on the TV itself. It hasn't been a huge problem, since we get most of our entertainment through streaming and the TV is on the home wi-fi network. But I have a bunch of physical disks from back in the day (a lot of favorite directors and other stuff I don't want to pay a streaming service for, since I already own them) and I'm just trying to figure out how to gain access to them again.
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ETA: I second Plex as a possibility. However, you're going to need a Plex server and disk space to store the ripped images. You can do it with a Rapsberry Pi running Debian, but you're not going to be able to watch Blu-Ray in all of its 1080p glory using that.
A coworker also recommends Kodi. It doesn't let you stream remotely like Plex (at least I don't think it does), but he swears by it for in-home use.
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I'm still just kind of mystified at why I can broadcast my phone's screen to my TV via Bluetooth, but can't do it with my much more powerful (and Bluetooth-enabled) laptop. Weird.
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RobertB wrote: However, you're going to need a Plex server and disk space to store the ripped images.
I just run the server off of my desktop PC (which is always on anyway) and use a 2TB external drive to store the files.
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I set up my Raspberry Pi Plex just to see if I could. It sort of works - it'll do 720p but doesn't like 1080p.Disgustipater wrote: I just run the server off of my desktop PC (which is always on anyway) and use a 2TB external drive to store the files.
Lately I blew too much money on a WD My Cloud Home, which has built-in Plex and a built-in transcoder. It'll do 1080p no sweat, but it's kind of flaky - its name is "Robert's My Cloud POS" now because I had to set it up again from scratch when it decided it didn't have media files anymore.
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