One of the biggest features that (controversially) sits behind the Plex paywall is hardware transcoding. This is where a special video encoding chip built into your computer can handle the work of ...

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You're not using your Roku system to its full potential. These secret menus, settings, and hacks will unlock that for you.

Here's some bad news for folks who've been using Plex to stream stuff from a buddy's personal media server to their TV for free for years. As it pledged to do earlier this year when it bumped up the ...

Plex remains popular, but are users considering alternatives, like Jellyfin and Emby? We asked our readers, here's what they told us.

If you need to expand your Mac storage in a big way without breaking the bank, your best bet is with external hard drives.

Plex has now announced 'custom metadata providers,' which will replace the old metadata agents sometime in 2026. It's largely ...

Taking the highest ranking for Hallmark Christmas movies set in Maine is "Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas," which ...

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Building a Jellyfin server is easy and cheap, letting you drop Netflix and Disney Plus while taking control of your library.

It was a bunch of smaller things piling up: a few containers slowing down, Plex taking much longer to refresh, and a general ...

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