I’m sorry - that one made milk come out of nose.
FireStick 4Ks? Have you used a FireTV Plex App recently?
I wouldn’t advise it.
The folks that encounter my Plexiverse are not independently wealthy, most are on fixed incomes, are retired, or otherwise past their prime, most aren’t very technical and if our current equipment lasts as long as we do - we’ll be lucky.
I create stuff that Direct Plays for us - 'cause I can.
Nearly every tv in my house has a FireStick (There’s one with a Roku 3 in the kids play room), I also have 3 Sony TVs with built in AndroidTV and still prefer the FireStick… My Plex app on the Firestick functions just fine… So, not sure what you’re getting at?
But… I like poking the bear 
Of those that have seen UNO on Roku and whatever mess that is on FireTV they’re using now - are thinking about eating cornbread and beans for a month so they can afford a Roku Ultra refurb (saw one for $50 bucks yesterday and notified Aunt Gladys - she ordered it).
We’re old - not unable to tell a Good Plex app from a Bad one.
But still - if every one of us owned a Shield or Roku Ultra - I wouldn’t make HEVC my ‘go to’ format. Old don’t make us crazy either (not yet anyway).
No, crazy just makes you crazy
Aren’t almost all clients on UNO now? I know my Android Phone updated to it not long ago, FireTV was updated to UNO WAY before the phone was, so was my AndroidTV’s. I’ve not messed with the Roku in the Play Room to see what it’s on, that thing stays put on YouTube Kids for the most part.
But FireTV Stick has UNO, has had it for months and months and months, I think it rolled out 2 weeks after the WebUI changed over?
Since FireTV Stick is Android based, I assume that extends over as well? Whatever it is, it doesn’t seem to be affecting its performance any…
Son, you just showed your cards.
Your expectations for a Plex app are a whole bunch lower than a group of geriatric, used up Plexers, that are able to tell a good Plex app from a bad one.
There is nothing even REMOTELY similar in UNO for Roku and ONO for FireTV. It’s like the difference in Mercury and Jupiter - yea, they’re both round - that’s about it.
What’s different? As I said, I haven’t looked at the Roku 3 in the play room. So the only other thing I can compare it to is the AndroidTV app, which seems mostly the same (although the settings menus are slightly different).
What does the Roku get that the FireTV Stick doesn’t? Polish? Or something useful?
Walk over there and fire it up. Take it for a drive.
FF and RW - if you have PVTs generated.
Clearly, you really don’t know what I’m talking about.
It won’t perform as well on a 3 as it does on an Ultra, but you’ll see what I’m talking about.
No PVT’s… I’ll take a look at it after the baby wakes up… But… if I’m not blown away, I’m blaming you, lol… I am very utilitarian btw… Just cause something looks good doesn’t mean I’m going to like it, there has to be functionality behind the change that exceeds the current functionality I have…
THAT is one of Plex/Roku’s Shining Achievements!
It sells the whole dam package!
If you look at VPTs on Roku - and use them for a week - you won’t be able to go without them. If the better half, the Mother of your baby sees them - you’re done, Pal!
Juice, with ~3,000 movies, and another ~45-50,000 episodes, thumbnails would not only eat up a ton of space, but they would take a ridiculous amount of time to generate for something that’s easily done without them to begin with… That’s one of those cost benefit analysis things man… The juice isn’t worth the squeeze imo.
Because you’ve never used them on a Roku, Man.
Please, make a small Library with some shows or movies you’ll watch, generate VPTs, use the Roku for a while. You can generate VPTs on a per library basis.
Even if you don’t change religions - you’ll know what we want in a Plex App.
I promise.
The New and Improved VPT generation routine is so fast now - it really is New and Improved. Yes, they would take up space, but generating them wouldn’t be nearly as painful as it once was - you’ll get an idea about that if you generate some for a small library.
It is roughly 3 MB/hour, so spacewise not a real issue even for a library as large as yours. Who cares about another 20 GB (which is what your 3000 movies possibly require)? 
The generation can run in background, ie. during daily maintenance. By that PVTs will be generated over a time frame of several weeks/months without you noting it. But in the end, they are there 
Tbh I only use them for recordings which have ads in them, for that they are absolutely killer. No way easier to skip the ads than PVTs.
For content without ads, I don’t see the real benefit in my use case as I rarely skip anything there, neither FF nor RW.
I use 'em all the time.
I’m a nervous sort (with a prostate the size of a VA Ham - Jamón) so I’m up doing something often. WHEN I miss something it’s soooooo easy to back up to a frame you recognize for another go.
(on a Roku - doing that on FireTV is impossible)
3,000 movies, at roughly 1.75 hours each, that puts just movies at 5,250 hours which means 15.7GB just in movies. I wish I had a more accurate way to give me the amount of hours I have total for the library but all I can do is guesstimate. At 42,000 episodes at .75 hours each, that’s 31,500 hours, at 3MB/hr that’s 94.5GB.
This means adding ~110GB to my NVME system drive (where I keep the database for plex), which curently only has 200GB free on it… It’s starved for storage unfortunately. Maybe when I switch up to a 2TB NVME drive I will consider it, but right now, that particular space is at a premium.
… and to us VPT Addicts - a 350G+ Database is just the cost of doing bidness…
The Back Monkey must be fed!
lol
Well your bad then NVME is not necessary for Plex I would say, a normal SATA SSD should be fine. They are cheap so you wouldn’t care about 100 Gigs more.
Don’t tell anybody, but my data is on WD Red 6TB spinner.
Access times are - faster than I am.
I do have my eye on one of those 1TB screw in SSD cards… when the urge can no longer be resisted.
You’re right, but currently, all 6 SATA Ports on my Motherboard, and all 8 Ports on my SAS/SATA RAID Controller card are taken up by other drives… I have another NVMe slot I could put a drive in, but then I’d lose either a SATA or a PCI-Express slot… Definitely can’t lose the SATA connection, and if I lost a PCI-Express slot, I’d lose something else mission critical… So… For now, until I upgrade the 1TB NVMe to a 2TB NVMe, I am stuck where I’m at…
