u/bros402

Since I am thinking of either using my very old computer (i5 3570k, 16 GB RAM, 1050 Ti), an old laptop (don't know the specs, but it cost $600 7 years ago so... yeah), or building a bare minimum just-barely-better-than-a-potato (Ryzen 3 3200G, ASRock B450M-HDV, 16 GB RAM, a low space NVME for the OS & Jellyfin, some HDDs/SSDs I have lying around, and the 1050 Ti.) computer.

I'm looking into doing either a Jellyfin or PleX setup for recording live TV (antenna) and streaming the recordings and other 1080p video files to a maximum of 6 devices simultaneously.

I was wondering what kind of hardware would be recommended for that? I know I need to get a TV tuner and an antenna. The cheaper, the better, but I don't want something that will break in two years.

Preferably, it would be a Windows machine.

So the cablecard was recently disabled for my cable and now I am having to switch to another solution...and I think that will be a Plex or Jellyfin server. The server will probably have a max of 5-6 people streaming things at once (some from home, some while out) and I'll also be running radarr/sonarr.

If possible, I'll run Windows on it so people other than me can maintain it - but if I have to run a Linux distro...I can (I'd just have to learn Linux again).

Ideally... it'd be under $600 all in (Note: once everything has been watched on the PVR with hundreds of hours of shows, 6 TB in drives will be available), but I understand if it has to be more than that with all of the crap going on right now.