Chris Brass

Using Handbrake – A Picture Tutorial

Here’s a step by step guide on using handbrake for compressing videos for your Plex Server and using the version of Handbrake for Microsoft Windows. If you are using a different operating system, the look may have some variance. This tutorial is based on settings for Roku so your settings deviate a bit. This is…

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Pluto TV – About as close as you can get to cable without actually getting cable!

Our new series on streaming services was supposed to focus on OTT (Over the Top) services that provide cable networks. But I’m going to kick off the series with something that isn’t actually a part of the group, Pluto TV. My reasoning and logic for this is simple… being a journalist is hard. A peek…

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The Evolution Of TV As We Know It

A couple of months ago I was bored and decided to look at what all cable networks were available on the various Over the Top (OTT) services which resulted in the accompanying graph, but before I get into what I discovered walk with me back to the 1990’s when status symbol technology was a pager…

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DVD Decrypter – Old, Unsupported but still relevant!

When I first got into Plex DVD Decrypter was my first tool for ripping my DVD’s and one that I still use. In fact, when talking about DVD’s, it’s the first tool in my toolbox that I always go to. While support for it ended many years ago due to a lawsuit by the movie…

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Tubi: Reminding you why streaming is so awesome!

Why should you try out Tubi TV? Take a walk with me. In the early 1980’s I would come home from school to an empty house and flip on the TV set. We didn’t have those really cool remote controls (Dad infamous quote “I’m not spending an extra $150 on a T.V. just because you’re…

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