I’m looking for a tablet that I can buy for my kids, so they can watch Plex (connected via a hot spot to my phone) while we’re on long drives.
I don’t need any bells and whistles, nor anything hugely expensive, as they won’t be using them that often.
Does anybody have any suggestions? I was thinking of fire tablets but I’m not sure how well Plex would run.
Id say firetab. They are cheap, they’re gonna be on sale in a week or two during prime day. Cost a fraction of what an ipad does. I use one for reading comics and occasionally watching stuff on it. Works great for that purpose
Awesome thanks. Any suggestions on what fire tab? I was thinking either 8 or 10, is the HD worth it?
What do you use to read comics? I use chunky on iOS.
We bought two FireHD 8 Kids, which come with a great case, charging over USB-C and the ability to put a MicroSD card. Considering how cheap MicroSD cards are, it made sense to pick a 128GB for each and download as many movies through Plex as we could into it.
Nice! Thanks! How does Plex downloads work on them? It’s terrible on the iPad I have, very rarely works.
I had some issues initially, but it’s been smooth sailing since.
I use comicrack, I have the fire10HD. I think its great. For Comicrack it takes a little bit of getting used to, but once you have it going I promise you’ll love it, especially if you have a large library. I have like 8000+ comics, so much easier to read. Theres a pretty good workflow someone made on the comicrack subreddit. Note - comicrack isnt available on the play store, but the apk is on the subreddit
I keep trying to reply, but it’s not working; presumably this instance is overloaded.
Thanks for the answers, if this ends up working.
Get them the basic iPad if your budget allows. I’m using Plex on my windows + android phone + iPad. I enjoy Plex on my iPad tbh.
Agreed. Plex on the iPad is great
They are currently using an iPad, albeit a VERY old one (older than them haha), but two new ones would be overkill as they’d hardly use them - only for long journeys.
My kid has gone through a pile of fire 7 and 8 tablets at this point, Plex works great with them after locking down all the Amazon crap possible with parental controls.
Usually end up breaking a screen eventually, some of the older Fire 7s had non-stop wifi issues but the current gen seems to holding up okay. Their cheap on sale so I don’t feel bad when they get busted lol
I would suggest any iPad, new or used. The Plex app uses mpv, so your codec support is very broad and not hardware specific. About the only thing you can’t HW decode with it would be AV1 of course, and some high end codecs for audio.
