LisaChimes

I've been using a Toshiba 1tb portable drive for maybe 2 years now with no issues but I am looking to have that drive exclusively hold my windows image backups and buy a larger 3tb drive for my media. I will also probably be hooking it up directly to the router for ease of sharing, not sure about that yet- my current drive has only been hooked up to my main HTPC. Either way, is there an advantage to getting a desktop external drive which has to be plugged in, rather than a portable? The portable has yet to fail me and has been accessing files pretty much daily without issue all this time. I wanted to try out the WD 3tb My Passport, but I really want longevity in this setup. Not sure if my po

I am waiting on a new Samsung smart tv to arrive which will be going in my son's room. At the moment I have Kodi setup through a Windows pc for streaming his movies from the hdd. The hookup is vga, but I just realized this new TV doesn't have vga, only hdmi. What would be the easiest method for accessing the files/Kodi on the new tv? I wish there were an app but based on my browsing around there seems to be no options with Samsung tvs, even though I have the app on my Samsung phone.