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.xyzEnglish
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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

  • TheAmishMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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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

    • devdad@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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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.

      • TheAmishMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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

      • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        We bought two FireHD 8 Kids, 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.

  • Opacity9850@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • devdad@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.