Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.
LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. “We believe the Harry Potter and DC universes will prove excellent additions to our slate of ...
I was considering submitting a bid for 10% of that -- i.e. $3.50 -- but then I realized that Warner Bros is the goddamn Loch Ness monster...
I was in Hollywood, looking to add to my tech bro portfolio. I'd been dodging peter thiels satanic priests all afternoon. I stumbled through a tent city, I was feeling drowsy due to fentanyl contact high. After I had kungfoo-ed a gang of immigrant criminals, I saw the studios.
I wandered over, bloody and bruised but victorious. I was in an instant surrounded by stars and starlets, the who's who. Glitz and glamour. A fat man in a suit waddled up to me, it's almost as if he could smell my crypto. He said all this cood be mine for 3.50. I spun and threw my arms to the heavens in victorious ecstasy. As I looked back, I realized it was the godamn lock ness monster.
Plex sucks. Couple of days ago they started to ask for $2 per month to access my files from my tv. I switched to jellyfin and everything works great. Sorry for the rant.
How many user profiles does it support?
that implies you may have a misconfiguration? I am pretty sure local access is still free, no? its possible your TV is connecting through remote due to either rebind issue OR some other local subnet setup you have.
My PC and my TV are in the same local network and plex was not trying to change me until the last week. I don't even have any subnets. Also I don't want to troubleshoot this issue, Jellyfin just works for me and I like using the open source projects.
IIRC it's a charge to use their relay servers, which you only need if you don't have a direct connection to your media server. Setting up a direct connection isn't always easy or possible especially for non-technical users, and does come at some small expense to Plex, so it's not that weird to be a paid feature. But if Jellyfin meets your needs that's a good thing, it's probably got a better shot at avoiding enshittification long term.
edit: I was not remembering correctly, even direct (remote) connections are paywalled. You'd need to use some kind of tunnel to make Plex think you're connecting locally.
Unfortunately for me, my TV does not support Jellyfin. I'll probably be getting a device for it that does though.
RaspberryPi4 is cheap and will play essentially any media.
Warner fires back with a counter offer where Plex has to purchase a WarnerPass. A subscription service where the available features and pricing are subject to change at any time.
Related pro-tip: if you use Plex and you also think it's enshittifying, switch to Jellyfin. You can run it side by side with Plex and point it at the same library folders.
It's wild to me that people still use Plex. It used to be free with no registration required, I left when they started wanting a user on their system since I knew that would end up turning into requiring a subscription.
I left when I saw all the attempts to send logs back to the mothership.
Its the only thing that roku supports
There is a jellyfin client for roku. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-roku I don't know what hoops you need to jump through to get it on the TV, but it might be worth your time and (mack of spending) money.
Fingers crossed!
I'm not the happiest with Plex but honestly I'd prefer they have it than a bigger company
Sir, this is an Onion article.
I bid 34
Jesus, wait until the jellyfiners hear about this.
Jesus, that had me for a second...
If Trump’s kids were getting a taste of that, Plex would genuinely be in the running.
I never used plex. I only ever use Jellyfin, I don't feel a need to use anything else. It works perfectly fine. I never understood why people went for Plex.
Mainly external sharing, I think, since it isbway easier (because of Plex controlling rhe connection?) The Roku app is better, and the cataloguing is better.
Still not worth it.