>Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750https://www.plex.tv/blog/new-lifetime-plex-pass-pricing/https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/19/plex-increasing-lifetime-plex-pass-cost-to-whopping-750/
plexpiggies stay losingjellyfinGODS reign supreme
>>108859373how much is jellyfin again ? ho yeah, its fucking free
>>108859373What is this? Some kind of media server?
>>108859416>>108859390I fucking hate poorfags so much, you killed /wt/ and actual good threads.
>>108859373this seems very reasonable to me. $250 was an absolute joke of a price for a LIFETIME subscription to a service that costs $70 a year.
>>108859469ok paypig, enjoy you money wasting life
>>108859469Can you explain what's the problem regarding free jellyfin?>>108859477Kek!
>>108859373>Paying to stream your own media files, that you own and are storing yourself in your own storage and running off of your own electricity over a network connectionGenuinely braindamaged behaviour, you can easily just VPN to your media center/NAS and fucking copy what you want to watch to your phone if you HATE Jellyfin for some reason.But no I'm sure plexfags will relish the chance to pay $750 to watch things they already own because ???
thank god i payed less than 100 dollars for it years ago
>>108859477250 lifetime is reasonable, I think 70$ a year too much. Like you're providing the hardware, you're providing the media, all Plex is doing is enabling all blocked local features and giving you some super basic public forwarding options? That's maybe worth 20 a year.
>>108859482750 is not even half a day's polymarket and daytrading revenue for me. I can spend the rest banging 8/10 sluts.>>108859504I dunno it probably works fine until you need to add metadata or stream media. It's not a problem i have to spend my time on however.
>>108859505>But no I'm sure plexfags will relish the chance to pay $750You do understand the concept of the word "lifetime" right, Sanjay? You get that people who already have a lifetime pass don't have to pay the new price (or anything ever again)? The time to get in on Plex was 15 years ago, way before your village had internet access. Jellyfin didn't even exist back then. Even now that it does, there's zero reason or incentive for anyone who uses Plex to switch away from it. It just works, and until that changes nobody is going anywhere.
i despise plex as much as the next guy but jellyfin also sucks
>>108859505>>108859534i think it's great that you know how to set up a VPN. you probably don't need to buy plex.for everyone else, plex is much cheaper than jellyfin.
for the thousandth time plex is worth it if you >have friends on it>they stream remotely/outside of your local home networkif youre the only one watching your kino and you watch on your computer/laptop anyway then you can just use jellyfin no problem
>POORFAG HOW DARE YOU NOT SEND $750 TO ISRAEL IMMEDIATELY
I just use a hacked plex
>>108859553>>108859595is plex really that normie friendly? Such that theres good tech support and a UI for everything?
>>108859553You can get a flawless jellyfin stream out of a mini PC connected to a NAS, its what I've done for 2 years.At $750 you could buy a way overpowered PC, the storage you need and also pay for someone to install it for your dumb ass.>>108859549>I'm indian because I don't just slurp up slopPlex can't survive without constant income, this is a sign that they are absolutely desperate for new revenue from their users.>>108859595Jellyfin is easier for solo users sure, but it has a perfectly competent system for managing user accounts and streaming to multiple people at once too.
>>108859373don't they increase it like every 6 months? lmao
>>108859595what does plex do? are they basically a paid ffmpeg service that lets me share my pirate kinos with other people?
I am here to laugh at the plex peggies. Don't forget to give me some steaming hot cope.
You can probably "ask" Ai to make you a webpage that indexes/loads your movies over the network. I've been tinkering with it with requests for an audio player with customization.
>>108859624>>108859650Read>>108859595>>108859539Plex is for people with friends and income.
>>108859373Have they busted the people selling those 90000+ title plex shares yet?
>>108859666>needs an AI to set up an http directory listing
>>108859677Cope received, thank you.
>>108859677people with friends and income do not pirate moviesquit posturing on an anonymous cantonese mahjong bulletin board
>>108859677I stream Jellyfin outside of my local network daily. How can you be on a tech board and be too stupid to know how to do this? It's like networking 101. It takes 5 minutes at most
>>108859637>is plex really that normie friendly?For a viewer being granted access to someone else's server it's no more complicated than Netflix.
>>108859717anon, your claim that it takes five minutes to teach grandma how to connect to your VPN is just so unbelievable that i can't believe you are being serious right now.
>>108859709>people with friends and income do not pirate moviesMan, you really are out of touch. Normalfags have been on the Plex train for a long, long time. Whether they even know it's piracy is another matter entirely.
>>108859731I installed tailscale on my mom's tablet and she uses my jellyfin with the account I set up for her. took 5 minutes.
$75 life pass enjoyers truly won. t. grandfathered into family account
>>108859553>>108859595jesus fucking christ everyone who talked about plex on /g/ was a shill this whole timenetworking was solved in the 90s, anyone can setup a VPN, you faggots need to stop shitting up this website
>Plex is still the only app that can stream to my dumb TV with a old chromecast dongleAnd it still lags and shits the bed often. God i hate chromecast and Plex. And yes, i've tested Jellyfin, but it refuses to stream anything.
>paypigging proprietary software to watch yify rips of sloplel
>>108859789this is definitely automated shill post
>>108859717>>108859639>>108859390I last tried Jellyfin in like 2019 and it was complete shit compared to Plex.I was considering forking over the $250 last week now that I have a media library again. Has Jellyfin gotten better?
>>108859373Oh no, that sucks.Anyway, who's down for going out for some Italian food? I'm starving!
>>108859771This, you just install the app, log them in and everything else is on you to set up for them really. If you understand what you're doing grandmas knowledge of the internet beyond "me click app for video" is irrelevant.
>>108859827jellyfin works fine in 2026. its greatest weakness is metadata. plex has the edge there because they literally spy on their users' libraries to parse metadata better.you can sidestep that problem by organizing your media properly, or just using a too like radarr/sonarr to do it automatically
>>108859827A 1000 times better. However. It will detect that you're a faggot and will refuse to work for you
jellyfin works fine for me. why would i pay $750 for a closed source SaaS server reliant scam that could just as easily shut down a month from now and render my purchase completely worthless?
>>108859844cool, i don't give a fuck about metadata. I do think Plexamp is nice and the sonic analysis feature is great but not worth $250
Well I bought it at only $100 during one of their Black Friday sales so...holy shit.
>>108859827That was 7 years ago anon, Jellyfin is fine now you just install a docker container, set up the storage and you're good to go. A mini PC with an Intel N100/N150 can run it perfectly fine while encoding 4K video (if you even need to encode it, compatibility across devices/codecs is pretty good on cheap modern hardware now)
>jellyfin>media server>kodi>media clientsimple as
>>108859477>implying Plex will still exist in 10 years
>>108859981When is the last time jellyfin got updated?
>>108859482>ok paypig, enjoy you money wasting lifeI will. Because I have money. What do you have? Time to tinker I bet
>>108859996https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releasesJellyfin is alright. Friends can get on via wireguard, though frankly most people just run their own plex or whatever. They should just sell memberships as tokens that can be resold, encourage plex-speculation.
If you're going to pay2pirate why not just get Stremio and a Debrid service?
time to buy a lifetime license for emby still at 119. they must be tempted to bump the price up after plex's announcement.
Do you make your friends pay you to access your hardware and risk your neck for pirating shit? Why am I paying $750 (seven hundred and fifty United States dolores) to host my own media on my own hardware???
threads a bit in now so I'm guessing the posts have been along the lines of:-I'm already in! Whoopee!!!!-Plex is worth the money. I love paying to use my own hardware-LOL sux 4 them I already gave them my money ages ago!!!!!Either way I look forward to plex becoming the most meme private tracker on the planet with zero new customers until they have to shut down operationsOh wait, lemme guess the company that's upped their money demands from $250 to $750 is gonna be around for years and years and years right? lol you better learn how to use Jellyfin soon plexpigs. Two more weeks.
>>108859553>i think it's great that you know how to set up a VPN. you probably don't need to buy plex.>for everyone else, plex is much cheaper than jellyfin.Every day I am more and more flabbergasted by the amount of people (whether here, on Reddit, or on Hacker News) who will vehemently argue that a VPN is the only safe way of exposing Jellyfin to the internet--meanwhile not only does a Caddy reverse proxy and a cheap domain allow you to do the same with a grand total of 4 lines of configuration, but is Jellyfin's officially recommended solution to boot.
>>108859469thanks jew boy
>>108859373there's no one better at selling Jellyfin than Plex
>>108859639>Plex can't survive without constant income, this is a sign that they are absolutely desperate for new revenue from their users. I've used Plex for over 8 years now and loved it, but it's absolutely this. I think I paid $120 for the lifetime pass? Seemed too good of a deal to be true at the time and it's because it was if they're hiking to $750 now. I'll enjoy it until it comes crashing down. By then maybe Jellyfin won't be shit.
>>108859390What is the point of Jellyfin when it's dogshit and you have to waste days trying to make it work? And it has zero app support for TVs.
This is fucking crazy man the world has gone madThey don't even buy the hard drives. All the infrastructure costs are on you. They just make an app. They are the ones who chose to start buying and flooding that app with absolutely worthless dogshit "content" that NOBODY is watching or even paying plex for. And now they are demanding more money. Everyone I know with plex still has issues with it. PAY UP PIGGIES THE PLEX EMPLOYEES NEED A NEW BONDING RETREAT THAT GOES GOOD THIS TIME
You guys still keep local copies?
>>108860782That article's hilarious btw>Scott Olechowski, 52, chief product officer and Plex co-founder: We get there. We’ve got to take a bus from the airport. Dirt roads. You start getting closer and there are guard towers around the property. People with machine guns and stuff. A lot of people were like, “Where are we going?”
>>108860790>cuckiolmao
>he still uses plex in 2026
>>108860757Skill issue. Took me an hour to spin up and it works on every device I have including samsung and lg tvs.
>>108860790>You guys still keep local copies?Yeah cause im not retarded
>>108860040>>108860790real-debrid got neutered
what feature(s) in PLEX are worth the $250 price?
>>108859844>organizing your media properlyNOOOOOOO I CAN'T ALPHABETIZE AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEEE
>>108859373Sucks for Plexfags. I saw this shit coming when I first set my home server up so I went in with Jellyfin and its great.
>>108859373OyVey stop self-hosting, goyim.>Also nothingburger. You don't need the pass.
>>108859731>you NEED to use a VPN to use jellyfinI thought this was a board for the technologically literate
Got my lifetime Plex when it was less. Waitingfags stay losing
>>108859373Seems reasonable, I paid $800 for ROON for my music collection.
>>108859373So is the HTPC dream dead?Jellyfin sucks, Kodi sucks, and everything else except for Plex sucks
>>108859787imagine being such a cuck you open photoshop to shill 4chan ads with an imagedidn't you hate shills, janny?
>>108861689the nice thing about a htpc is that it's just a pc, so you can just pay the files with mpv like a normal, well adjusted person
Jellyfin is fine, it's not perfect, and some of the apps can be more polished but I have no issues with it. Then again /g/ seems full of people trashing just about everything now.
>>108861689Kodi is great. You're an idiot. Also, Kodi is free. Why would anyone still use Plex at this point? They're just going to slowly make it worse.
>>108861718I honestly don't understand what people hate about jellyfin, it's just a front end for choosing video files to play, it's just a fucking file picker that keeps track of what you've watched, what more do people want?
>>108860782> taking a corporate retreat to HondurasHoly fuck. I mean costa Rica is right there and 100x safer.
>>108861734Which I personally love because I can lose my place in a series sometimes, so having it all tracked and available on multiple devices is nice.Some people might find the management side tedious, but I kind of enjoy it personally. And it's nice being able to watch in bed, in the living room, or on my laptop.
>>108859373Why aren't you using Jellyfin, you numpty?
>>108861791Explain why Jellyfin is better without using the word Free
>>108861748I comfymax as well. Its even comfier when all the downloading and management is automated
>>108860040Why even use stremio at that point? The desktop client is nodejs garbage and I'm pretty sure it's using CPU for something else.
>>108859373Lol. Paying to stream shit you have on your drives.> Laughs in Kodi
>>108861799It's free and it does everything Plex does. Also fuck you and your prerequisites.
>>108859373OG lifetime pass feels goooooood
>>108861827>and it does everything Plex doesIf I want to add my tech illiterate uncle to my Plex server, are you claiming that remote access on Jellyfin is just as good as Plex?
>>108861817What else would you use? I've had no issues with the desktop client but it's mainly for family to use on the TV anyway.
>>108861849It can be even better if you know how to set it up. Look up Jfa-go or Wizarr. Remote access can be done so many different ways from tunnels like tailscale or reverse proxy with a domain. You are on /g/ and are capable of these things right?
>>108861849I never used a Plex server like this, does it do some kind of automagical tunnelling or something?
>doing anything but just setting up a share drive on a local NAS
>>108861889>It can be even better if you know how to set it upIts not for me though Anon, reading comprehension. This for my boomer uncle; I can set up whatever, but it's a plus not have to troubleshoot for him later. And anything more advanced you do on Jellyfin, you could also do on Plex. So basically; you admit that Plex is better in every possible respect besides price
>>108861903this. plus kodi gives you a nice enough UI and figures out codecs for your TV
>>108861915Who needs the reading comprehension here? It does everything Plex does except it isn't tied to Plex servers so whenever that goes don't have a problem. This isn't even counting all the data collection that you will dismiss. There's no more troubleshooting here and if anything you should set up a tailscale node at his place anyway to solve any other IT issues that may arise. I did that at my parents place not even for Jellyfin and it has saved me a drive.
>>108861915Pretty slick self report, anon
>>108861799My jellyfin credentials have never been leaked, I don't have ads on my frontpage, and there's no need need to pray I don't get rugpulled by a license or EULA change.
Is plex the company that invalidated all lifetime passes on a technicality or was that someone else?
>>108861849my uncle doesn't watch anime so this isn't a problem for me.>>108861916and kodi has more advanced features.
>nooooo you can't use jellyfin you don't understand plex has smart tv apps that actually workif you are interacting with your smart tv os at all you are niggercattle. picrel allows you to do whatever you want on your tv and refurb units are dirt cheap
>>108860757>And it has zero app support for TVs.My LG OLED has a fucking native app for Jellyfin what the fuck are you talking about anon
>>108860757What's the point of plex when "your" service is under their control and they can shut down or charge you an arbitrary price or police your content?
>>108860028Wanna take a wild guess at what else your friend can get into with Wireguard, or really any other VPN service?
If you pay for Plex when Jellyfin is so good, you're mentally retarded
>>108862923The docker stack containing the tailscale instance
>>108862925What if I'm too retarded for jellyfin but too autistic for netflix? Did you think of that? That's why I'm going to the trouble of making my own library and plex setup, so that they can eventually charge me as much as they want, or maybe shut it down completely who knows?
>>108860757if it takes you more than an hour to spin up a jellyfin docker container you might be retardedalso the app works fine on my LG, it was one click to install from the app store
>>108862951>What if I'm too retarded for jellyfinYou aren't. You can literally just ask free LLMs about how to set it up with docker. EZPZ
based
I paid like $70 with 30% discount four years ago. How much can I sell my account for now?
>>108859373>Lifetime pass>$750Literally a drop in the bucket. Changes like this only affect the perma unemployed NEETs that are rejects of life.
>>108859787>networking was solved in the 90s, anyone can setup a VPN, you faggots need to stop shitting up this websiteyea let me tell my tech illiterate friends to install and set up their own vpn that will be a walk in the park oh wait...
>>108859628what does that even mean
>>108859709>people with friends and income do not pirate moviesi do and several of them are on my plex server
>>108860757Works on my Roku TV, paypiggy.
>>108860580>Do you make your friends pay you to access your hardware and risk your neck for pirating shit?no. theyre my friends and family. i already had a ton of pirated shit anyway i just set up plex and invited them and every now and then one of them will ask me to add something to it. fuck paying for subscription services
>>108859637Yes, moron
>>108863198Exactly. I think the anti plex fags are actually retarded
>>108863198If you can log into GMail, you can connect to tailscale
>>108863262Oink oink, pay piggy
>>108859416for now, eventually they all go the way of the almighty dollar. plex was free at one point too.
>>108863303Yeah, then I vibe code my own FFMPEG wrapper/Web player/pseudo netflix front end for my library in 20 minutes. There's zero reason to pay a subscription for watching videos on my server.
>>108863198>vpn vpn vpn! you have to install a vpn! retard alert
>>108863345shut up bitch you already lost everyone saw it
>>108859553>use my Asus router's built-in DDNS service>setup caddy reverse proxy on PC>wa laI just wish I wasn't living in the Spectrum monopoly where my upload is restricted to 20mbps, although it seems to stream fine for most files.
>>108863350>I'm so fucking stupid that I need Plex to configure port forwarding for me!
>>108859373lol i don't even know what plex is, it's probably useless and this sounds like an exit scam>we need to increase prices because we're not making enough profit, goy>sorry goy, it turned out that we still aren't making enough profit so we're going to close down and keep all your money
>>108860757git gud
If you're self-hosting all your stuff, what are you paying for?
>>108859787why even use a vpn? just put it on your external IP.
>>108859373>pay the price of a netflix sub>but also bring your own media, server and networkI just don’t understand
>>108859549Lifetime means until plex 2.0 comes out. Keep coping lol
>>108863978Not him but that's exactly how they will jew the people who have lifetime subscriptions>sorry goy, you bought a lifetime subscription to the old version of Plex, we are no longer developing Plex, we only maintain and improve Super Plex™ now, please buy a weekly subscription to Super Plex™ to continue to access your own media from now on (terms and conditions apply)
>>108864004That's why they gave everyone a month warning and heavily shilled the current 250 bucks license.They will invalidate shit in a couple years just watch them.
>>108863686Anon, if you had any friends or family you'd know that only the person who's running the server has to pay, and anyone currently running a Plex server got their lifetime pass for $70 a long time ago. You're paying to BECOME Netflix for the people you grant access to your server. They don't have to pay a dime and get to leech off of your premium benefits. If you're not hosting a server for other people then you don't need a Plex Pass or Plex or Jellyfin or any of this shit.
Not my problem. Already paid for itself many times over by constantly being 3+ years ahead of Jellyfin. Ain't nobody has the time to wait half a lifetime for Jellyfin to add a half-assed feature that Plex had since the dawn of time.
>>108863676Most Jellyfin users are tendies/jeets who're not allowed to change the router settings or share it with 12+ other people in their flophouse.Such is the price of free.
>pay the jew tax>or use fucking docker to install jellyfinGod fuck everything. Why can't any of these AI bros who 1000x their productivity just make something better already.
>>108859390Fpbp. Absolute truth nuke.>>108859469>>108859827>>108860757Dear god, zoomieniggers can't even set up jellyfin, top kek
OK so how long till plex ultimately dies and we all move over to Jellyfin? I love plex but this is some grade A bullshit.
Pay up to stream you own content, piggies.What is even the point of Plex instead of subscribing to streaming services like Netflix directly ?
I'm a current Passpiggy and it didn't cost much (when I got a Plex Pass I had never even heard of Jellyfin so I wasn't considering alternatives when I saw them do an annual discount) but should I still consider unwinding myself from their ecosystem? I feel like this could backfire and they end up bankrupting themselves over it.
>>108862716Laughs in dolby vision
The blog link is down now.They might be ready to walk it back.
>>108859373>>108859390>>108859416>>108859469>>108859477I'm gonna let you in on a little secret: whenever a service starts offering "lifetime" subscriptions, it means their lifetime, not yours. It also means that their finances are in the gutter and this is their last ditch effort to not go bankrupt immediately.
>>108864213For someone who's apparently an Ubermensch (saying "jew tax"), you're pretty stupid when it comes to installing and setting up software. Are you sure you're an Ubermensch?Pro tip: one doesn't need Docket to install Jellyfin. You are on a technology board, but you don't even know the basics of technology. You're most likely here for the consumer electronic reviews.
>>108864213canthinky cute
>>108865746But the lifetime pass was offered way back in 2012. They've been selling them for over a decade now.
>>108860782Yeah it's clear whoever's running Plex is fucking up bigtime.I bought lifetime ages ago and Plex's cost to keep me on that is completely tiny. All I use is:- Their clever dns subdomain redirection service- Their basic SSL implementation that sits on top of that.- Their clients and server software (which hasn't had an update I actually care about in years)I probably cost them less than a dollar a year.They're spending money like crazy on having over 100 employees and implementing shit nobody wants like 'free live TV' and 'free on-demand movies' and it's all GARBAGE. The first thing I do on a new Plex client is disable all of it and pin my own content.
>>108861901Yeah. You basically tell your friends/relatives 'get a free plex account and tell me your username'. Then you add their username to your server, and their TV or phone or whatever with their plex client will find your content.The clever part is Plex doesn't proxy your content. They issue you a subdomain off .plex.tv and an SSL certificate. Your friends/family's remote plex clients automatically find you using that, and you build a secure tunnel between their client and your server automatically.It's real nice. I've been running a big server for lots of people for years. When/if Plex shits itself due to being comically mismanaged, I'll have had my moneys worth from the hundred bucks I put in five years ago.
>>108859682Nope
>>108860757>infuse>moonfin>native jellyfin app>100 other jeet appsbased brainlet
>>108859789If you're going to pay for plex why not pay much less for a newer chromecast kek
Arrstack + Jellyfin Masterrace reporting in
>>108859373>Published 10 hours agofitting
>>108866030The subtitle doesn't really give a good clue as to what the content is, what is the article proposing?
>>108866058tl;dr is companies abusing periods of inflation to increase prices over the value of inflation, or even when their product is unaffected by inflation. Say inflation goes up 10%, they put it up by 20%
>>108866174Oh, yeah, then that is something I've observed as well. It feels like a way to nudge people into thinking higher prices are just a new normal even when they don't have to be.
>>108863978>>108864004If it were a new pass entirely then it wouldn't be described as the existing lifetime pass having an increased price. The press release would simply say they have a new type of pass that has elevated features over the lifetime pass, like "lifetime plus" or something gay like that.If it's not actually new pass then the whole "2.0 will invalidate your pass" concept doesn't totally make sense. That means they're charging new customers $750 for a product that will stop receiving updates in a couple years, which is not likely, irrespective of how cynical you are. The price increase probably has to do with the fact that they can only charge you once for infinite updates.They could absolutely go a "2.0" route and fuck everyone over, but if they did, that's what they would be doing now. They can say that $750 customers are buying an entirely new product, but they can't discriminate based on how much you paid for the exact same thing.
i paid 95 less than 4 years ago
>>108859390Jellyfin with jellyseer was really fun to setup and use. I unfortunately could no longer afford to keep my server going, but without having used Plex I would highly recommend jellyfin if you like tinkering. I learned a lot about decoding.
>>108859595I just gave my friends access to my entire jellyfin library, my movies, anime, shows, video game music, and hentai.My parents already had access but only to the stuff they request through jellyseer, I'm thinking about merging the movie libraries but I don't think they will like having to scroll past stuff like Hanra honban.If you can setup plex then you should be able to setup caddy (it's designed for retards) and port forward.
>>108866374wrong pic
good
unironically more jellyfin shills in this thread than plex shills
>>108860700It's even more retarded because I'm pretty sure you still need to port forward anyway to access plex properly, unless you use their relay which limited to 2 Mbps.
>>108866374im not worried about my own understanding i already have jellyfin set up on the same machine i run plex on but its only setup for myself and on my own local network. i highly doubt my friends who are on my plex server will want to jump through the hoops theyh would have to jump through to get jellyfin working for them not to mention ive seen the jellyfin smart tv app and its shit compared to plexs and all 9 of my friends that are on my server watch via a smart tv app
So what's the point of having Jellyfin or Plex instead of just connecting your massive SSD and your massive screen to your puter?
>>108866537I don't think plex can afford anymore shills until July (LOL).There is probably at least one anon here who has contributed to jellyfin since it's open source, so you are probably right.
>>108866674i have friends and family who ive invited to my server some of whom live elsewhere. ive explained it ten times in this thread alone anon. some of us have servers where we've invited other people when i torrent a movie to watch for myself i just watch it on my puter with mpc-hc (fuck vlc all my niggas hate vlc) but when my 11 year old cousin wants to watch some chinese anime about swordfighting ill download it for him and then he nor his parents need to waste money on some subscription. in fact the anime he asked me to get isnt available on any north american streaming service. at first they barely used it but now they increasingly use it more and more and are waking up to how bullshit streaming services are
>>108864213You can use AI for the dockershit bro
>>108865810>Plex is fucking up big time>shit nobody wants like 'free live TV' and 'free on-demand movies'Meanwhile in reality>The company announced earlier this month that it now has 16 million monthly active users. While it didn’t specify how many are still on the server side, Scott Hancock, Plex’s vice president of marketing, said in an interview that Plex customers using the software’s media server features had been overtaken by customers using Plex’s online streaming capabilities in 2022.>“There’s more folks who are using our ad-supported content now than there are on the server-supported,” he said.https://www.techhive.com/article/1473408/plex-now-has-more-streaming-users-than-media-server-users.html>Plex’s ad revenue grew by nearly 45% in 2023 and the overall business grew by 30%, the company tells ushttps://techcrunch.com/2024/01/29/streaming-media-company-plex-raises-new-funds-as-it-nears-profitability/
>>108866374>>108866400What's the difference between H-Archive and Hentai?
>>108859373lmao does this dumb ass service still make you route your traffic through their servers even if you fully self host? IE: I run my own dmz, dns, everything, I have ZERO NEED to send my personal private traffic and data through them to capture and sell and/or hand over.
>>108866694I have a plex pass, but couldn't you achieve the same as you described by hosting a reverse nginx proxy to serve through a public ip/domain with wireguard connecting your server and reverse proxy? That's how I host plex publically atm.
>>108859469Plex used to be good. After they start adding useless shit to it and preventing me from adding and modifying it all they can get fucked. Jellyfin allows me to do everything and more. Wholpin is awesome as well.
>>108859469My bluray collection alone is probably worth more than your car but sure keep coping poorfag. Spending money on an inferior option as a status symbol is peak destitution.
>>108859906>kodii just recently loaded that up purely to play music with goom and the thing is so unbelievably dog shit. The way everything looks by default is shit and the way that it just displays shit "files" holy fuck
>>108866192Or maybe they want to have some increase in revenue in order to sell the company for more money to Netflix or whoever will buy them.
>>108866374>>108866400Although the metadata isn't as good I use Stash for porn/hentai. I rather keep my media 'clean'
>>108866174been saying this for the past 4yrsish
Aw, the blog post came back. No walkback.
>>108859677>Can't afford a bag of shit?
>>108867193I have trouble believing anyone in the streaming space is going to buy them until they sever the media server portion of it (you know...the whole reason the company exists, but I digress). Hulu or whatever won't want to carry on supporting a platform that exists to circumvent paying for a streaming package elsewhere.Alternatively their buyer simply won't honor Plex's lifetime pass subscribers and insist on them joining some other recurring revenue stream, since you made that purchase with Plex and not the new owners.
>>108859390FPBP.
>>108859469Enjoy spending $800 on something that is free elsewhere, then?
>>108867329I don't use plex but aren't they pushing a bunch of live TV shit? They want to compete with Tubi and Pluto TV. They probably get more money from ad supported VODs than subs. This is them milking their power users for every last cent they can.
>>108867390They have some TV shows on their interface you can stream from their servers.I've actually used them to watch Drew Carrey (although only on PC because I can also adblock their ads, which still work their way in despite me being a lifetime Pass holder).
>>108867399Actually that adblocking thing makes me feel like something they could start banning people for. Wouldn't be surprised to see that happen and it won't matter if you have a Plex Pass when they do it either.
You know why Plex currently wins?They have an actual functional HTPC app.I know the lot of you are DroidTVucks or AppleTVbabies who exist in your closed ecosystems but I keep the HTPC free platform dream alive. I gave Jellyfin a chance I really did. But its media player app has no remote or controller functionality, thus, it's shit. Maybe if one comes along I'll give it another shot.
>>108867469Whenever I use Plex on a PC I just use the website. I haven't even tried to use a standalone interface for it separate from the app.plex.tv site.
>>108859373sucks to be you, had to get it while it was cheapThat said I hate how the plex PC app completely craps its pants whenever two screens have different DPI settings, the android app is very fucked up too
>>108867469Why would you use a HTPC in 2026 when a $20 Chromecast that you can just ADB all the bloat out works just as well? Say even if you want to avoid AndroidTV, a Ugoos AM6B+ for full DV P7 support is better.
>>108867828Makes it easy to browse and listen to things at the same time from my bed.
>>108867838And you're multi-tasking like that with a remote? This just sounds like regular PC usage that you pair with a HTPC keyboard anyway. I actually do the same thing but I'm not calling it a HTPC.
>itt retards on a sinking ship brag about their cheaper ticket pricesIf this isn't the wakeup call for you idk what will be.
if you use either of these locally I am appalled. just get a cheap office pc and plug it into the tv via hdmi. any cpu can decompress video. use an external hard drive you fill at your friends houses. this has worked for generations now I'm being serious. you can have adblockers etc. don't be shit about this, if it's not a computer on the tv you've failed
>>108860757>app supportngmi
>copy and paste movie from computer to usb stick>wait 10 mins max>plug the usb in the TV>playAre you guys fucking retarded?
>>108859827I tried it again a few months back and it's still complete shit.It also sticks around after you uninstall it like shit that's seeped in to the floorboards.
Not my problem.
this thread really sums up the absolute state of /g/ in current year when people defend paid proprietary shit when theres free alternative
>>108868839It's the AIbros seething at Free/Open software because they keep getting kicked our or rejected from it
>>108859373just use jellyfin you dumb nigger
>>108866192>cynicalOr maybe we weren't born yesterday like you were, and have already watched this exact thing happen several times beforeGoing concerns require ongoing influxes of cash, a one time payment model does not work when you have a saas with development costs, and Plex has already paywalled features that were once free, you're simply retarded if you can't see the twenty foot tall writing on the wallAnd for what benefit? It's pretty clear from this thread that the Plex userbase is technologically inept given all the kvetching about requiring a vpn to use jellyfin, but for normal people what benefit specifically does plex actually provide? Do you really think that $750 is a reasonable cost to have someone set up port forwarding for you? Even at $100 dollars the maths doesn't math if you ask me, irrespective of their underhanded nonsense
>>108864213They literally give you the docker-compose file and you have to make like 2 changes and they tell you which changes and if you are still lost because you're literally retarded any AI on the planet can guide you from thereLazy bitch basterd benchod I fuck you
>>108859373Imagine paying to stream your own content. Might as well get aNetflix, YouTube premium etc
>>108868961>Or maybe we weren't born yesterday like you were, and have already watched this exact thing happen several times beforeNot an actual argument for why your projection is correct in this particular context, and refutes nothing that I said. SiriusXM pulled exactly what you're describing and got hit with a class action lawsuit and settled and had to honor the "lifetime".>a one time payment model does not work when you have a saas with development costsThey have the option to simply stop selling lifetime passes to new customers entirely, or making the next update v2.0 with a brand new pass. They didn't do either of those things. Instead they have tripled the price.>Plex has already paywalled features that were once freeDid I miss the part where they made *existing customers* pay more for the same stuff? That would be the precedent you're actually looking for to support your point.Again, you're confusing "I'm just going to assume the shittiest thing I can imagine is real" with actual intelligence and reasoning abilities.
>>108869474>projection It's called pattern recognition >that wall of copeHave at it goy, I look forward to laughing at you in a few years
