To follow along today you’ll need a few things. How to Set Up Plex (and Watch Your Movies on Any Device)

(a no-jailbreak-needed way to connect your older Apple TV units to your Plex Media Server). If you have a 2nd or 3rd generation Apple TV and don’t mind jumping through more than a few hoops, Note: This guide is for the official Plex application for Apple’s tvOS, which limits it to the 4th generation Apple TV and above. Plex is a free media organization tool and server platform that makes it dead simple to share your movies, TV shows, music, and photo collections across devices–including the Apple TV. Thankfully doing so is ridiculously easy thanks to Plex. So for readers with a large collection of media they’ve ripped from disc or DVR’ed to store locally on their PC (or a dedicated media server), it just makes sense to take the perfectly-capable Apple TV and link it to their local collection. TV shows, movies, and music stored on your local network put less demand on your internet connection, usually offer higher quality, and they work even when the internet is out. While that’s all well and good–we love Netflix and Hulu as much as the next cord cutter–there’s still something to be said for using local media. Whether we’re talking Apple TV, Chromecast, or Roku boxes, the big thing these days is on-demand streaming content.

Let’s take a look at how to access your vast home media server selection with Plex.

While Apple might pitch the Apple TV as the center of your streaming video universe, we know there’s no place like home when it comes to high quality content.

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