You'll have that old laptop streaming films in minutes.

Plex Media Server is a free and open-source media center software that lets you easily create a local or an internet media server, onto which you can stream almost anything. This easy-to-use software ...

December 8, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google If you want to risk bricking your Apple TV (which, in reality, seems pretty unlikely) and are comfortable ...

Since the storage sizes on smartphones haven't quite caught up with that Drobo NAS in your home office, packing all of your media onto a 32GB iPhone is an impossible task. Worry not; we're going to ...

Tired of paying to stream your own media? These Plex workarounds make remote access free again. Here's how they work.

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Using a dedicated device like a Synology NAS drive to host your Plex media library offers a variety of advantages over using a Mac. In addition to being able to configure a large amount of storage at ...