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Originally Posted by flipper35

Some NAS will do it, Kodi will organize is all locally, Plex will stream your content to other devices on your network.

My wife likes Poirot, for example, and it is no longer streaming. We bought the box set, ripped it to our library and she watches on her laptop, or the bedroom TV at night or wherever in the house. We use Kodi but with all the computers upgrading to Win 10 and no homegroup we have to rebuild the library so we might switch to Plex and try it. The free version.

I have been using an AppleTV and iTunes to do this for years. It works well (but your PC needs to be running with iTunes running, which is fine as mine runs 24x7).

I was going to try Plex, but you have to create an account and login to that account for it to work. For instance, if you lose Internet, but your home network is up, I think you're screwed. As long as my home network is up I'm fine. It's going to depend upon your smart TV or device connected to your TV and what it supports. Once you determine what is supported, you can figure out what will work for you. My TV is a Samsung from 2007 (yeah, really) so I have to use something external to the TV. My TV is technically a smart TV, but back so early, that it wasn't anything like the TVs today. It was super limited on what it could do.