There's an initial investment required for hard drives, a NAS device, and possibly more for optimal streaming experience. By ...

Using a media server on your utilities bill, inside your home, seems like a lot of work until you go about setting one up.

Thanks to the Raspberry Pi, we have easy access to extremely inexpensive machines running Linux that have all kinds of GPIO ...

What if you could replace every streaming service you subscribe to with a single, tiny device that costs less than $100? It sounds almost too good to be true in a world where Netflix, Disney Plus, and ...

A media server is a wonderful tool for streaming your personal media collection on the go, and Plex is one of the most useful movie and TV apps for those who still prefer to own their digital media.

tl;dr is: scrounge up some hardware, preferably on a recent-ish Intel platform with an igpu (i think 8th gen+ is the sweet shot), and then get a slew of storage. Pick a base operating system (I like ...

Hold onto your hats, Plex users: A huge Plex Pass price hike is incoming, along with big changes for Plex Media Server users who want to stream their content remotely. After holding the line in terms ...

$12 on Hulu. $17 on Max. $14 on Disney+. $23 on — wait, twenty-three dollars?! — on Netflix. I’m not the only one who’s reluctantly pulled up a bank statement to see the revolving door of streaming ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Have you ever found yourself drowning in a sea of media files, struggling to keep everything organized, encoded, and ready for use? For content creators and media professionals, this is more than just ...