1y ago

Best 100% dedicated plex player (client) for 4k TV

I have a lovely plex server set up and working very well, with tons of content ready to play. Now I just need a client for my TV that doesn't piss me off. I absolutely detest Google/Android TV, and my Apple TV periodically wipes out my Plex preferences, which is a known issue.

I'd like to have a 100% dedicated plex client for my TV. I don't want or need it to do anything else at all, and it has to be totally remote friendly and capable of playing 4k/60 UHD content.

Any suggestions?

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Shield pro is what people almost universally recommend. I have never tried it so I can't confirm or deny. My tv has a native app that works really well, before I used the 4k Chromecast
- I don't have a shield pro, but I have the original shield which is basically equivalent to it. I would definitely recommend it.
- Shield is the only correct answer. Pro or regular, doesn't matter.
- I have two, can confirm they are pretty good
- I have a Shield Pro. It's still shitty android TV and it's not a completely dedicated Plex player. I have literally zero interest in any other apps.
  
  Try the native Plex app on your TV. It runs smooth on my LG B9 and supports more encodes than the chromecast surprisingly. I've had some things play on the native app that Chromecast refused. I set mine up to launch automatically when you hold down the 2 button on the remote. That way I don't have to fiddle around with the bullshit android tv interface. You can probably bind Plex to the Netflix button on your shield for a similar feel

Seeing what you wrote in other comments here I gotta tell you there is nothing like that.
Plex doesn't produce their own TV boxes, therefore you won't have anything that has ONLY Plex.
Only thing you could do is taking an Android tv box and somehow script it to automatically start into Plex as soon as you wake it up...

Try using Infuse as your front end on your Apple TV.
- I've tried it. I want the plex UI and ONLY the plex UI
  
  No one makes something that runs one single app.

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