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.

  • bootyberrypancakes@lemmywinks.xyz
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    1 year ago

    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

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    1 year ago

    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

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          Nice! Thanks! How does Plex downloads work on them? It’s terrible on the iPad I have, very rarely works.