Why “Plex” is being discussed
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Yep. Worth every cent. The Apple TV experience of Infuse is night and day with Plex. I used to constantly struggle with Plex buffering and crashing on my local network with the…
by illegalbyte2 · Sep 8, 2026
Crazy expensive though. It's basically a Plex subscription, just for the player.
by Gareth321 · Sep 8, 2026
they'll eventually come out with a completely new overhauled version of plex that's sub only but your lifetime pass will still be good for "plex classic" which they'll stop supp…
by heed · Sep 8, 2026
Coming from Plex, I gave Jellyfin a try, but returned back to Plex after several months. My biggest gripes were poor subtitle support and inability to differintiate TV shows fro…
by crazybonkersai · Sep 8, 2026
I also have a lifetime pass, but I'm becoming increasingly annoyed with Plex. Why do I have to regularly turn off their "recommended" stuff that is just ads for movies I can buy…
by jwr · Sep 8, 2026
I recently switched from Plex's pretty terrible native players to Plezy (on iOS, iPadOS and tvOS). Plezy supports both Plex and Jellyfin as a backend - I'm not sure if there is…
by lode · Sep 8, 2026
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Plex Inc. is an American software and media streaming company. It runs its namesake ad-supported streaming television service and develops media server software that enables users to stream their personal media collections to their devices. Plex had 16 million streaming subscribers as of 2023. It is based in Campbell, California. Read more on Wikipedia