For the past 10 years or so I’ve had a PC hooked up to a dumb TV to stream my TV. Now I’m officially old and have kids in elementary school. The PC is finally unbearably slow but now I have no idea what to replace it with, or frankly even what my options are. Smart TV? Casting Stick? new PC? some newfangled option i don’t even know what to google?
you can stream from a pc to VLC for android app so any android box or fire stick will do the job for you. you just have to turn on media streaming within the pc you want to stream from (and have files to stream, take that folder, right click, properties, sharing, etc) and it will show up as a folder within the network section on VLC.