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Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750 (9to5mac.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 70 points 5 months ago (23 children)

I thought the last couple moves were the nail in the coffin, but this might be it 🤣

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  • [–] 63 points 5 months ago (18 children)

    Unless, like me, you got it for $49.

    Still, jellyfin.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    Exactly, got mine with an Nvidia shield purchase, still moved to Jellyfin like a year ago and never looked back

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    Was the conversion easy? Could you keep your watchlist and whatnot?

    I have… a lot of data.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Um honestly I didn’t even try to port shit, I’ve only got about 12 TB of stuff anyways so it was easier to just start fresh

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Lucky you. I’ve got almost 750Tb the transition might be rough.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    750TB!!!??? Good lord, how much did your RAID array(s) cost?

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Uhmmm so, yeah. It’s… a significant investment. Let’s say, I look for HDD sales constantly and I’m eating less these days to feed my habit.

    For the curious, I run on Synology hardware. Most of the drives are 20-24TB each.

    I have their 12 bay sever with two 12 expansions (36 total) and then another 8 bay server with two 5 expansions.

    I started with the 8, and when I quickly hit 18 total drives with redundancy… I realized this was going to be a lot more than I had initially planned for.

    These are also direct disc rips. No downloads. That’s actual discs in hand, ripping, saving, typing. It’s mostly from my amazing city library, the local video store, borrowing, and then the rest are purchases.

    And I’ll answer the next question, dual income no kids… and my partner shares my interest (or at least benefits!). They always know what to get me for a present.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    These are also direct disc rips. No downloads. That’s actual discs in hand, ripping, saving, typing. It’s mostly from my amazing city library, the local video store, borrowing, and then the rest are purchases.

    I’d suggest Handbrake, to at least re-encode those rips. IME file sizes can be reduced anywhere from 20-50% compared to direct disc rips.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    I do use handbrake. I should have been more specific. I just mean’t to say that it’s not like a bunch of low quality Pirate Bay downloads. That actual discs were used. So many discs. So many that I actually have a pile of dead readers because I used them to death.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Holy shit! That's downright impressive!

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I thought the last couple moves were the nail in the coffin, but this might be it 🤣

    I got it for 20 bucks! Good times!

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I think it is. A price hike this massive can only mean they‘re banking on panic buyers who think they can save hundreds of bucks if they buy it now. Meaning Plex probably knows it‘s over and they just want to make as much money as possible before filing bankruptcy or something. At least that‘s what it looks like to me.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago

    My guess was almost this. They obviously want to cash in on the panic-buyers. But I don’t think it’s because they’re going under. I think the goal is to put the lifetime pass out of reach for most people, meaning they’ll default to the subscription instead. Because Plex wants people on subscriptions. They’re more reliable income, which the company can more accurately budget for. There’s a reason everything is moving towards SAAS, and Plex is doing the same. This is simply an attempt to push/lock everyone to the subscription model instead of the single purchase.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I have to agree with this, I think they bet on more people subscribing as a result of their external connection subscription requirement, didn't and are panicing because they don't want to downscale enough to be able to be maintained.

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