I recently purchased a 4K samsung TV, Apple TV 4K, and Xbox One X 4K. Which NAS should I purchase to download my 4K files on so I can watch them in 4K on my TV? Thanks plex community!
Transcoding is required to DOWN-size your media if a client isn’t powerful enough to play the original. Plex won’t upscale the media. Usually your TV will do that job (e.g. when being provided with a DVD or Blu-Ray quality movie… otherwise you’d see just a smaller box of the original-sized video). Some receivers provide an integrated upscaler… not a big fan myself if there’s too many links in your chain of media devices and each of them meddling with the content quality (scaling it up, down… – my 2 cents: most TVs should do the job just fine).
@tom80H said:
Transcoding is required to DOWN-size your media if a client isn’t powerful enough to play the original. Plex won’t upscale the media. Usually your TV will do that job (e.g. when being provided with a DVD or Blu-Ray quality movie… otherwise you’d see just a smaller box of the original-sized video). Some receivers provide an integrated upscaler… not a big fan myself if there’s too many links in your chain of media devices and each of them meddling with the content quality (scaling it up, down… – my 2 cents: most TVs should do the job just fine).
So I just place the 4K files on a NAS and use the Plex App on my TV and it should stream 4K?
At least give it a try before investing into additional hardware. If transcoding 4K content is required the NAS is likely to be underpowered anyway.
Regardless if it works or not, I would not be investing more money into a better NAS that can transcode to rectify the “issue”. Transcoding degrades the quality and would render your 4K equipment, basically, useless. If it indeed does transcode - figure out and solve that issue (why does it need to transcode?), don’t band-aid it with improved transcoding capabilities.
