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Question about NAS and TV

Laurijan

Laurijan

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Hi!

A friend of mine ordered a Zyxel NAS540 4-bay network drive and wants to connect to a TV he orders later.
http://www.zyxel.com/products_services/nas540.shtml?t=p

What technology must the TV have to be able to stream movies from the NAS?

Do some TV have a browser so that my friend could access the NAS cloud adresse?
Is it possible to just hook the TV over Ethernet-port to the NAS Ethernet-port or USB if the TV supports USB disks since the NAS has USB ports.
If not is the only way to stream content of the NAS a DAM (Digital Media Adapter) like Google Chromecast?
 
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Still need advise bump.
 
That NAS supports DLNA, so it should be able to stream to a TV which supports DLNA, and I think they all do now. So that would be over Ethernet. You might also be able to use USB and access it like a local device, like a flash drive.

I will tell you though, Plex and XBMC (Soon to be Kodi) are about two of the hottest things out there for streaming. So you might want to look into that. Roku has a Plex app, and lots of devices support it now.

Some "Smart TVs" are better than others, but in my experience you get a much better experience using a seperate standalone device.
 
are you implying he wants to get a smart tv?

i would rather get a device like a minix to plug into a tv, this way you can use the device on multiple monitors, run xbmc/kodi on it, etc... pretty much avoid some crappy slow limited tv software

in fact maybe that's the only solution... a device that can run xbmc so that you wont worry about codec issues & you can even stream other things online from the internet
 
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