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                “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen
 
            
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        This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
At the moment I just have an old laptop and connect it to my TV via hdmi and installed Parsec on both devices. It's a nice, free method.
In the future though I do want to look into getting a mini PC and doing essentially the same thing except it could be an individual device for the most part.