Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year.

gilindoeslemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I paid for a lifetime Plex Pass years and years ago now, I’ve definitely gotten my money’s worth.

  That being said, I fully expect more bullshit like this, up to and including ending my “lifetime” pass.

  When that comes to pass, I’m so glad Jellyfin will be available for me to use.

  source

  • plaguesandbacon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I also paid for a lifetime pass and still switched to Jellyfin last year. I find it’s quite a bit better than Plex. The UI leaves a bit to be desired, but the performance for me is way better.

    I’d suggest giving it a try

    source

    • psivchaz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Lifetime pass for Plex too. A few months ago, it bubbled up an ad-filled version of a show I was watching in front of the show on my server. That is, it showed up in Continue Watching. I was briefly baffled when I started watching an ad on a show that I thought was streaming locally.

      Anyway, I switched to Jellyfin. There’s some imperfections, but so far it hasn’t tried to trick me into watching ads.

      source

      • plaguesandbacon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s pretty bad, but I’m not that surprised.

        source
    • PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is my experience too. The web interface is usable, but a bit rough. It is a lot like early Plex web UI. The options for clients are okay on Android / Google TV but they are kinda bad on Apple TV.

      Hopefully as more people discover Jellyfin interest in development of both the server and the clients will surpass Plex.

      I appreciate what Plex has offered for free for many years now, and I was once a subscriber, but I don’t love it anymore because I’m looking for the straightest path to watching my library on my devices. Jellyfin delivers this better most of the time.

      source

      • plaguesandbacon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I don’t know what the Apple TV app is like, but I would love if the Android and Roku TV apps were the same as the web and mobile application.

        At this point I believe the server is superior to Plex, at least on my experience. Much snappier and streams flawlessly

        source

        • -> View More Comments
    • Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Same here, the Plex app was super heavy on a lot of my devices and would slow them to a crawl. Jellyfin is lean and runs well even on my slow smart projector. It does everything I need it to and more. I also got sick of Plex trying to shove their content and rentals and streaming services down my throat. Couldn’t be happier with Jellyfin.

      source
    • BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Does Jellyfin have remote play? I’ve had a lifetime PP for years now, but most of my users don’t. I will be installing Jellyfin tomorrow to run parallel until it can be a full replacement, or just forever.

      I just was asking someone on here a few weeks back if switching off Plex while already having a PP was worth it. I think the gist was no rush since it’s working, but this news is my canary.

      source

      • emogu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        As long as you have PP, users streaming remotely from your server can do so without PP (or the mobile app unlock). The client user charge is only for accessing servers that don’t have PP. Still insane they’re charging anything at all for streaming private content from a private server to a private client though.

        Thank god for jellyfin. I have a feeling plex would have gone a lot harder with this update if there was no competition.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
      • plaguesandbacon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You can enable remote access through firewall rules, port fwding etc but I haven’t done that yet. There’s a service called tailscale that allows remote access to almost any app externally, works really well. Only drawback is that if you’re on mobile, the tailscale app needs to be running for access to work

        source

        • -> View More Comments
      • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You have to set it up yourself. It does not have remote access through someone else’s servers like Emby and Plex do.

        source
  • Lenny@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “We regret to inform you that your Lifetime Pass has died in a restructuring related accident. Consider easing your loss by browsing our other pass options.”

    source

    • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What they’re actually gonna do is release Plex 2 or something and then just invalidate all the old lifetime licenses, as they were for Plex and not Plex 2

      source
  • PostaL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Never EVER pay for lifetime subscriptions , unless you have lawyers on retainer.

    source

    • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I mean mine has already paid for itself

      source

      • PostaL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You bought a lifetime subscription. Are you dead?

        source

        • -> View More Comments
• treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wish they had a client for PS5.

  source

  • yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, Sony seems to be really hostile towards allowing most any video player apps on the PS5. They specifically went out of their way to remove DLNA support, and they only just allowed a DLNA-enabled video player on the store 7 months ago… and it’s subscription based.

    source
  • tonyn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I am in the same exact boat. The PS5 is the media machine for us upstairs. I would switch to jellyfin if there was a PS5 client. Glad I’m not alone on this.

    source

    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Does it not have a web browser?

      source
  • SexDwarf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s the biggest reason I haven’t switched to Jellyfin.

    source