However, never fear! There are still several ways to access your Plex Media Server NAS over HDMI with HD Station and below I have detailed the very best way to do it in my Plex HDMI NAS Guide. Whether this is because of the older Plex client app not being compatible with HD Station 4, or QNAP choosing to remove it (as they did older versions of Kodi) because of some users playing fast & lose with copyright law, we do not know.

Unfortunately, the most recent release of QTS and QNAP HD Station appears to have lost/removed the Plex Media client application for HDMI access. This was especially tempting to do, as many of the newest generations of QNAP NAS in 2020 (such as the TS-251D and TS-253D) have HDMI 2.0, HDMI 2.0a and HDMI 2.0b support – so 60FPS 4K and higher. Till recently, the very best way of having HDMI access to your Plex Media Server was using the QNAP HD Station application and many of the QNAP HDMI enabled NAS. connecting a TV to the HDMI port of their NAS and then accessing the Plex Media Server (with all it’s graphical flair and design) but with near-zero latency, which is hugely beneficial for MASSIVE 4K H.264 high bitrate media that is just so big to stream over the network, but HDMI can handle immediately. However many users also like the option to access their Plex Media Server locally over HDMI, i.e. With access to your own privately owned multimedia, the ability to share that media with friends and family, access Plex TV channels and enjoy all the metadata background images, reviews and information that are included to dress up your movies and boxsets beautifully – the appeal is pretty obvious. 9.2 Related Enjoying your Plex Media Server over HDMI with QNAP NASīuying a NAS Drive for use as a Plex Media server is pretty common these days and something that alot of people have done in the past to huge success.

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