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.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
    51·
    10 hours ago

    I already have lifetime but there have been increasingly more and more yellow/orange flags recently.

    For you jellyfin folk: Is there a good solution to being able to cache/download episodes/movies ahead of time for “offline mode” with any of the android clients yet? Last time I checked that was a pain point and most solutions boiled down to “just download the file and use VLC”. At which point… why am I running a media server when I can just mount a samba share at home?

    • Casterial@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      10 hours ago

      My sole problem with jellyfin is the ease of use for remote access. I can’t explain to my 60 year old mom, or 80 year old grandma how to set up a VPN.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        131·
        9 hours ago

        I’ve said this exact same thing in the past, and been shouted down by the Jellyfin crowd. There is a lot of apologia in the FOSS community, and Jellyfin is one of the worst offenders. It has several known security exploits, and should never be accessible outside of your LAN. But every time I mention it, I inevitably get some chud responding with “lol I’ve had my port forwarded for years and been fine” as if that is a valid security audit.

        And this means your only real option for remote access is a VPN. But that makes sharing with friends/family extremely difficult.

        Especially if those family/friends also want to run their own servers, because Jellyfin doesn’t have a centralized “here are all of your servers” home page.

        It also means you end up playing administrator to all of the “I forgot my password for the ninth time this week, can you reset it for me” inane requests.

        Plex does all of those things really well. Want to share with a friend? Just send them an invite link, and they can access it with their own account. Want to access multiple servers, because you have a few friends who also run theirs? Easy, they can send invite links to you, and you’ll access them all directly through the home page. Family member forgot their password? They can click the button and follow the prompts to reset it themselves.

        • Casterial@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          8 hours ago

          Especially true on reddit, the Plex hate is real - yes they’re raising lifetime pass, but it’s not valuable to them for you to buy it. That’s why it’s raised until you only want to use the subscription.

          • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
            3·
            6 hours ago

            It’s especially weird when we mostly agree with them on Plex’ path to hell. But when we ask critical questions or point out a weakness of Jellyfin, they act like we drove over their dog. Or they downplay your concern and deflect

        • IratePirate@feddit.orgEnglish
          22·
          5 hours ago

          It also means you end up playing administrator to all of the “I forgot my password for the ninth time this week, can you reset it for me” inane requests.

          Jellyfin is a self-hosted streaming service. You have just understood the concept of self-hosting, Sir.

          your only real option for remote access is a VPN. But that makes sharing with friends/family extremely difficult.

          The first part is true. The latter is exaggerated. Yes, it’s more if a hassle than just “install the app, follow a link and you’re done.” That said, if done through wg-easy (a wireguard configuration frontend), it’s “install two apps, scan a QR code, enter a server URL and you’re done.” Also, corporations spoon-feeding users, creating an expectation that tech just magically knows who I am and works on fairydust and rainbows, that’s what got us into this mess. Expecting a modicum of setting up from the user isn’t too much to ask if they can then access somebody else’s services for free.