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Hi and hope all are well today. First, thanks in advance for any / all responses. Second, apologies if this isn’t the best place to ask this question.

I’m curious if anyone, has moved completely from using an AppleTV to something else. Current use case for the ATV is a few streaming apps (Crunchyroll / HiDive, Tubi, etc.) and Apple Arcade (a few casual games).

If you did completely switch, what did you decide on using? Did you go back to buying movies / using a DVD/Blu-Ray player, setup a mini PC and stream from websites / rip music and movies, use a gaming console instead, etc.?

Exploring options and entertaining thoughts for right now. Again, thanks and have a good day / evening.

Edit - 2024/01/01 - Just wanted to thank everyone for the lively discussion and resources (links, recommendations, etc.) related to my question.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I ran an Apple TV in the living room for a long time to access my Plex server and whatever subscription my wife has this month. As time went on it got more and more glitchy until it came to the point where I had to power cycle the thing every few days. Replaced it with a cheap fire stick, annoyed the crap out of me. Replaced that with a cheap Roku, it was only slightly better than the shitty firestick.

My wife got me the NVIDIA shield pro for Christmas this year, and I picked up the p2920 controller for it. My god this thing is awesome - not only is it the best tv box I’ve ever used, I can use moonlight to play games on my rig or GeForce now to stream games. I highly recommend this thing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'm seeing a few comments on the Nvidia. I know of them, but had not really given them a serious look. Thank you so much!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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AP WiFi Access Point
NAS Network-Attached Storage
Plex Brand of media server package

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Roku ultra with the memory card. But no one in my household uses apple devices.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use a Synology NAS + Plex + Chromecast, works great.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I've never used an Apple TV, but my smart TV is a Roku and it does most of the things you've described. I use Crunchyroll and Tubi and a few other streaming apps including Apple's. I use Prime Music and it has like 99% of the albums I want to listen to. Obviously it doesn't have Apple Arcade, but I mostly just play games on my phone anyway. I even put a Roku box on an old CRT TV that I use sometimes for watching older shows in SD format lol! I don't know if this is the type of answer you were looking for but I hope it's helpful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

As does my fire stick, and even my Vizio smart TV … all except the Apple Arcade

I’ve bent thinking about moving in the other direction. I try to avoid privacy abuse of the SmartTV and Fire Stick is being enshittified, so what should I use? AppleTV seems interesting to try plus games may be fun

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Appreciate your insights on how you use the Roku devices. Understood about gaming, my eyes can't handle mobile gaming :)

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