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Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans (www.ign.com)

submitted 1 month ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] q@piefed.social 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was an early adopter to Plex, came over from Boxee when it was a thing and bought a very inexpensive lifetime pass.

I jumped ship about a year ago to jellyfin. I use tailscale and just help people set it up. After initial setup, it's a toggle and start jellyfin and it functions pretty close to Plex. My users use the Onn box or Nvidia shield. Almost nothing has to transcode. I had issues with poorly encoded mp4 files but mkv streams flawlessly without transcode. Transcode itself is limited by graphics chip.

One note, I don't add people to my tailscale, each user has their own tailnet and then I join it to mine by inviting them to my server. This gets around the 3 user limit.

Overall, some annoyance and pain but not bad and people went along with my plan and now it's just normal.

My thing was, it's my server. If they want what I have then buy an Onn or whatever and spend 15 minutes setting things up. Or don't. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

These days the user limit is at 6 users. That could be large enough for a family, though not quite sufficient if you want to share with a whole bunch of friends .

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

How does it work on TVs? You start Tailscale on the TV, and have to toggle it every time you use Jellyfin?