[gaspard234]

My NAS has a torrent downloading software and an app for my Samsung TV. I just visit my local network web address, add the torrent in the NAS dashboard, and am able to play it from the TV within a few minutes. Most content is great, occasionally there are audio issues or missing subtitles.

[NikolaNovak]

Right, but there are I think a few assumptions there:

1. You need to set up NAS and downloading software - that is not as trivial or common as HN audience assumes :)

2. You need a reliable and safe source of torrents. They may be paid or invite only, or may be super scammy and unrealiable and mine crypto etc etc

3. How safe do you feel in your jurisdiction/location at running plain torrents. Here you get notices and sometimes strikes / actions pretty quickly, so now we are talking at least a VPN, which is next layer of setup, configuration, possibly price, possibly its own threat vector as commercial VPNs are scammy, your own VPN is non-trivial to setup correctly.

etc etc etc :)

[Tyr42]

With synology the NAS and torrent software is pretty plug and play? I boot it up, plug in some hard drives, and click yes a bunch and it's there now.

Agree with 2 though.

[ShowalkKama]

2) as long as you are not looking for exotic stuff you can just use public trackers or semi-private ones (they require an account but usually you do not have to keep a ratio, do not need an invite and they do not require you to sell your soul to the devil).

If you want to go down this route (and you use *arr) prowlarr is a must have to avoid wasting time copying configs between the *arr.