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Re: Do you even need the PC? by blackwater 07/17/2019, 11:39am PDT
Brody Wilder wrote:

How about a nice 4K smart TV, and as many cheap 4TB USB drives as it takes? Anything the TV won't play can be converted to a format it will, even if the conversion process entails downloading it again.


I don't want to re-download something I already have. Converting video formats takes a huge amount of time as well, if I wanted to go that route.

Brody Wilder wrote:

I'm planning to replace my desktop with a Raspberry Pi 4, once the models with 4GB RAM become available (was August, now September). The energy savings alone should pay for it.


I'm pretty sure that the Raspberry Pi doesn't have a good enough CPU to play most video formats. I'm not interested in dealing with stuttering video.

It would be nice to have something with lower power consumption, but I doubt it's going to be an ARM server. They just haven't made it far enough into the mainstream yet.
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