Is Plex still a thing?

I bet they will discontinue the lifetime membership at some point.

Then create a bunch of subscription models like they all do in the end slowly increasing them overtime.

Something is telling me they do a rug pull in the future with lifetime membership. "If you want xyz new features then you need to go subscription base"

Just like Microsoft did with Office overtime.
 
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Picking peoples brains on this, whats the best option :-
  1. Pay £200 for plex before the price rise and use the native plex player and server side transcoding when needed
  2. Pay £99 for Infuse as predominantly use Mac hardware.
Only concern is if Plex remove access for 3rd party clients? Presumably they'll close the current remote play loophole using infuse player?

What are peoples thoughts?
 
Jimbeam3678 said:
Picking peoples brains on this, whats the best option :-
  1. Pay £200 for plex before the price rise and use the native plex player and server side transcoding when needed
  2. Pay £99 for Infuse as predominantly use Mac hardware.
Only concern is if Plex remove access for 3rd party clients? Presumably they'll close the current remote play loophole using infuse player?

What are peoples thoughts?
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Use Kodi and LMS

Both free :D
 
I’m sure that’s going to put people off getting Plex. I have a lifetime pass from ages ago, I can’t remember how much I paid, but that’s a crazy jump in price.
 
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Jimbeam3678 said:
Picking peoples brains on this, whats the best option :-
  1. Pay £200 for plex before the price rise and use the native plex player and server side transcoding when needed
  2. Pay £99 for Infuse as predominantly use Mac hardware.
Only concern is if Plex remove access for 3rd party clients? Presumably they'll close the current remote play loophole using infuse player?

What are peoples thoughts?
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Use Emby (lifetime is £90 just now) which in my opinion is way better than Plex.
Or use Jellyfin and the free apps available..
 
SenTineL said:
Yikes! That's quite the increase - to almost Roon type levels.

More and more services seem to be pushing their users towards monthly or annual subscriptions as they'd prefer a steady incomes stream instead of a one and done lifetime access.

Happy I bought a lifetime licence during a sale years ago (2017) and it does get used more days of the week than not.
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Not too surprising really. I think I only paid £40 for my lifetime pass maybe 12-13 years ago. That works out about £3 a year so far.

Granted I don't use a lot of Plex's actual services, everything I use is self-hosted, so the cost of them providing a service to me is very minimal anyway.
 
Klunt Bumskrint said:
Wow, they won't be selling many of them. What are they thinking.
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Well, I think that's exactly what they were thinking. They don't want to do it. a £750 pass price is probably going to generate less backlash than entirely removing the lifetime pass option. So technically it's still there, still available. More so than increasing the lifetime price, was the absolute https://doctorow.medium.com/https-p...04-teach-me-how-to-shruggie-kagi-caaa88c221f2 last that year resulted in previously free/available features being locked behind the paywall. Like gee, seamless remote access? (one of the TOP 3 reasons why you would actually use Plex in the first place.)
 
MarkeR said:
Use Emby (lifetime is £90 just now) which in my opinion is way better than Plex.
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I wouldn't bother with Emby either (I'm a lifetime pass owner with them), the development pace is glacial, every release ends up with 17 further releases to fix regressions because they don't use any testing plans/tools, and their feature requests section seems to end up with tools that benefit commercial server operators being implemented quickly, whilst genuine features for home users sit ignored for years.

github.com

Releases · MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases

Contains binary releases. Contribute to MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com
 
The only reason I ever bought a lifetime pass was because they removed features that used to be free, such as hardware transcoding. I probably used the free version for 10 years before that.
 
Jellyfin is another good alternative, not sure if it’s been mentioned. I used it for a few weeks, not polished as Plex but not far off.
Luckily bought Plex’s lifetime pass a few years ago for about £50, still is my go to.
 
Unless things have changed in the past few months neither Jellyfin or Emby had the same number of supporting apps as Plex does eg Plex is available on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Samsung, LG

I use Infuse myself across my iOS devices but other users of my server need a nice easy to use client app. Plex fits the bill.
 
Bluecube said:
Unless things have changed in the past few months neither Jellyfin or Emby had the same number of supporting apps as Plex does eg Plex is available on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Samsung, LG

I use Infuse myself across my iOS devices but other users of my server need a nice easy to use client app. Plex fits the bill.
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You’d have thought most that are bothered using this kind of tech, would have decent branded tvs/devices.
 
Bluecube said:
Unless things have changed in the past few months neither Jellyfin or Emby had the same number of supporting apps as Plex does eg Plex is available on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Samsung, LG
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Emby has supported all of those for ages :confused:

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Thanks for all the replies but no ones answered my question :cry: I'm thinking the Infuse player is the way forward and then the monthly sub for a month if they ever close the remote play loophole and I need it when travelling? Or is the Plex Client good when you have premium?
 
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