I read gremlins post and thought he dumbed it down nicely for y'all.
I use KODI (used to be called XBOX Media Centre - and its what mythtv etc are based on). It runs on a device, can be windows/mac/linux. Plug said device into tv, fire it up.. and away you go.
Upside is it can play anything, downside is it has to be installed on a device that plugs into each TV (ie, if you have 4 tv's you either need 4 devices with KODI on.. or the same thing on all TV's from one device.. and by device I mean laptop or pc, fwiw).
It also has a remote (smartphone app) that works pretty well.
PLEX is a pay service. Basically you have a PC with some media on it (either "in" it or on something plugged into it) and you install the progam and say "here is all my media". You then can watch it on anything you install the app onto. Phone, tablet, PC, random web browser, some TV's have a plex app too. It is a cloud based service so technically you can watch your stuff anywhere. I spent a week in hospital and was watching tv from home using plex through my phone. If you have a smart device that does screen sharing or casting, you can just do that...
I've stopped with PLEX now, and just use KODI and netflix (I only have one TV and use netflix on smart devices if needed)
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