Streaming devices that permit "clean" play through?

[Ryan Gallagher]

Anyone aware of any 1080p or 4K streaming devices that don't do annoying things like clobber the credits with menus and ads, with no way to disable them?

I would use it at home if I knew which ones behaved nice relative to the content. But also shopping for a booth streaming player that can pass as a backup in a pinch for 35mm/70mm screenings. Getting all the way through credits would be ideal. Holding a pause indefinitely would be a plus too. Must have wired internet.

My Personal AppleTV 4K+Ethernet doesn't fit the bill. Clobbers credits, but it does let you set it to never sleep or screensaver, and can be set to forced 24p, it's HDMI only audio out is a bit of a bummer though.

How are Roku, Android TV, Fire-Stick in these areas?

My worry is that the credits behavior is app/sub-platform dependent, so maybe the question is which purchase/rental streaming platforms don't do that?

Amusingly the cleanest 1080p feed I can manage is on my mac using the apple TV desktop app, with the primary video on a 2nd monitor... the UI stays in another window elsewhere and it gets the clobber like updates over there. I'm not sure if the app will support 4K, my mac is too old to try.

[Randy Stankey]

To be honest, most of the things you don't like are because of software, not hardware.

You can use the VLC app on your AppleTV and you should be able to get a movie to play through, seamlessly. It should be able to play at any resolution your Apple TV can play. If your original content is 24 FPS, the AppleTV with VLC should be able to play that, too.

AppleTV/VLC can play from NAS (network storage) if you hook an appropriate hard drive up to your local network. It might take a bit of fussing to point the app to your NAS but it does work.

I ripped some of my old DVD and BluRay collection to my NAS and I watch movies in my living room on a regular basis.

It might take some practice to show movies to the public without showing menus on the screen but you can do it. You'll just have to work out your own methods, depending on what you want to do and how things are set up.