Plex on Sharp TV or Plex on Streaming device ?

[Jasmine18 0]

I was trying to install Plex on my Sharp Android TV , When i saw some talks which made me think of my decision .Which said that smart tvs are no longer smart and is dumb to use them , Is it ? Streaming devices are pretty cheap and with updated capabilities ? Is it true ? However I do not have a streaming device yet , but i am planning to buy one on the sale now . 

But why do i feel that installing plex on sharp or any smart tv is pretty simple as here.What specific differences would i get with a streaming ? 

 

[Sammy 790]

Why are you discussing Plex here?

[ebr 16169]

Neither.

[Abobader 3464]

18 minutes ago, ebr said:

Neither.

Hardly stopped laughing.

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

5 hours ago, Jasmine18 said:

I was trying to install Plex on my Sharp Android TV , When i saw some talks which made me think of my decision .Which said that smart tvs are no longer smart and is dumb to use them , Is it ? Streaming devices are pretty cheap and with updated capabilities ? Is it true ? However I do not have a streaming device yet , but i am planning to buy one on the sale now . 

But why do i feel that installing plex on sharp or any smart tv is pretty simple as here.What specific differences would i get with a streaming ? 

 

To me Plex should never be installed on a Smart TV or anywhere else for that matter. Plex is not, for me, a choice if I want to watch or listen to media. Emby is much better.

Having said that my belief is that smart TVs are not truly "smart" and a second rate choice for any TV watching. But I do own a smart TV which I bought because it was a LOT cheaper for the features I wanted. I tried, briefly, to use the TV's operating system and its so called smarts but I quickly abandoned that for the better option of stand alone boxes simply connected by an HDMI cable.

With virtually all "smart" TVs you do not have to use the "smarts" as those are quite often  inferior to other options and so called "smart" TVs almost always have HDMI inputs that work well for external inputs and you can then avoid using the "stupid" TVs actual operating system. 

The main reason, for me, to buy a "smart" TV was because of its other features but, again for me, a smart TV's "smarts" is quite dumb. 

BTW: I would never use Plex as it is a system designed to throw media at users for profit rather than Emby which makes it easy to keep your media at the forefront and generally avoids most advertisements. (except those that appear on broadcast TV) 

Plex is a platform for exposing users to intrusions and Emby is a system for accessing your own media.

BTW 2: Try going to the Plex forums and making a post that mentions Emby as much as Plex has been mentioned here. It will get you banned quite quickly. Plex is very anal and paranoid and closed to the idea that some people might just not prefer them. 

[Jasmine18 0]

Okay sure  Thank you for your time and reply . I am grateful and i will keep that in mind.