Plex To Launch a Store For Movies and TV Shows

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• filister@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Plex is a prime example how corporate shenanigans can ruin an otherwise great piece of software.

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• Gutless2615@ttrpg.network ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m old enough to have not trusted Plex since the original XBMC split.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still have an original Xbox with Xbmc on it lol

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    • Gutless2615@ttrpg.network ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My man.

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    • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I think I do too in the attic somewhere. Mid chips on those things where a bitch back then when it first started up. I think they got better though.

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• ashok36@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was trying to think how Plex thinks this is going to play out, knowing that this move will piss off their customer base. Then I realized, this isn’t a play for Plex’s existing customer base. This is a play for their users “friends and family” that are enjoying their customer’s shared libraries already.

  Their ‘customer’ base has for many many years been developing a user base for Plex of technologically naive people with Plex apps installed but could never run their own server. If Plex knows, for example, that for every paying Plex customer there’s three other users pulling from someone’s library, that’s a huge opportunity for them to convert those users to paying customers.

  Everyone that set up a Plex server and then shared it with your tech-phobic parents, cousins, friends, etc… made this possible.

  I don’t like it but I can’t argue with the logic from Plex here.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is that bad though? I don’t mind renting a movie I really like even if my friend has it on their Plex. Especially if it’s from a small studio. Currently I do that via Google TV. Plex Inc being a small private company might use the money better than a publicly traded giant. I wouldn’t mind my friends and family spending a few bucks on it either.

    Of course if Plex starts enshitifying existing private streaming features, that’ll be another matter altogether.

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    • lambda@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’ve been switched to using Jellyfin anyways. I hope they can do this successfully. They haven’t been the best for a while anyways…

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yikes this is a good theory. Eventually we will be snuffed out. Sharing will stop. Etc.

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    • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well maybe not. Without the shared libraries I doubt the tech-phobic users will stick around for movies they can likely find other places, especially since I doubt Plex gets very good deals for content.

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    • ashok36@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t be so sure if that. It’s possible, yeah, but if my theory is right they see the library sharing as the carrot to get normies to download the plex app onto their roku or apple TV.

      Pivoting to a streaming only app would close off that avenue for user acquisition permanently.

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  • skozzii@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like this theory and I hope your logic check out. I am a little worried that I will have to make a change soon.

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• RegalPotoo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The irony is just chefs kiss,

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If its DRM free its not a problem.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not until it’s a mandatory popup or recommendation any time you want to watch. Or maybe mandatory ads and popups on “new releases”. With Plex, nothing surprises me now.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well I use Jellyfin as I don’t want proprietary software on my system and this isn’t making me have any regrets. The benefit of Plex is what again?

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    • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah this “pretty major UX refresh” line bothers me A LOT. Kinda like when Amazon fucked up the UX/UI on the cheap fire tv sticks.

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Slashdot post points to this article www.theverge.com/…/plex-store-movies-tv-shows

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