The Service That Lets You Build Your Own Streaming Library Just Announced a Wild Price Increase
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The price of Lifetime Plex Pass plans will be increasing to $749.99 on July 1.

Plex has announced a massive price increase on the service’s Lifetime Plex Pass. On July 1, the lifetime subscription option will go from $249.99 to $749.99, an increase of 200%. The price hike will only apply to new subscribers, with no changes to monthly or annual subscription pricing.

      • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        If you ignore the mostly horrendous UI, the security problems, the worse transcoding performance, the harder setup, the difficulty to access it remotely in a safe way,… Yeah sure, way better

          • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I, and I assume everyone on this forum who has one, paid around 50-100€ for their lifetime pass. My hardware encoding works great and doesn’t need me to tell it about each and ever codec in existence and how to handle each one.

            The new price is insane, but that was not the topic of this thread.

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      As someone who picked up lifetime for like $45 or whatever it was (I think a 50% off sale?) what must have been 15 years ago…

      I run jellyfin. Its just a better experience IMO.

      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auBanned from communityEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I’m sorry but you can hate Plex and prefer jellyfin all you want, but you don’t have to lie. Nothing about jellyfin is a “better experience” than Plex.

        What are some examples?

        • Grapho@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Don’t have to make an account, for starters. Gives you more detailed control of transcoding options, audio playback and whatnot.

          The UI looks much worse, that much is true, but that’s not the end all be all of user experience.

        • Vinstaal0@feddit.nlEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Jellyfin is easy to prove you are the owner off. While Plex has issues with that on systems like TrueNas when you don’t have full access to the server

          • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auBanned from communityEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Why are you having to prove you’re the owner of it exactly? What you’re describing is “user error”.

              • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auBanned from communityEnglish
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                2 months ago

                Was? So it’s not now?

                Again, if you installed Plex in a setup that it is known to have issues with, that’s a user error.

                • Vinstaal0@feddit.nlEnglish
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                  2 months ago

                  No lol, that’s just a pourly designed system.

                  Also Plex worked with IX systems to get Plex on Truenas