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Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans (www.ign.com)
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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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[–] 109 points 5 months ago (18 children)

Literally 10x the price I paid for mine

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

    Early adopter club 🙌🙌

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  • [–] 114 points 5 months ago (14 children)

    Early rejector club. Jellyfin gang.

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (12 children)

    I have underwear older then jellyfin. Plex was the only option for some time

    Edit: Alright, alright, it wasn't the only option, but it was the cleanest/easiest way to make a home server feel like a streaming service that I knew of at the time

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    It was?

    I started streaming video in around 2001. Over SMB. Using VLC as the client.

    Then I switched to using iTunes as a server.

    Then came XMPP/Kodi.

    And eventually, Jellyfin.

    Every few years, I’ve tried Plex, and it’s never done quite what I wanted, and required security/privacy compromises. About the only thing it has going for it is that the client and the server will run on just about anything.

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

    XMPP

    I think you mean XBMC.

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

    I was using MythTV long before Plex came around.

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

    I guess what I should have said was "only one of its kind". As far as I knew, it was the only one that did all the metadata stuff to give it the "streaming service" feel. Being able to share my library to others outside my home without hassle was also big

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    That was before the streaming services or most of the current VPN recommendations existed and Myth was mainly competing with TiVo. So, you could set up a front end remotely, but it would have been painful.

    They've always done metadata collection though. What Plex added was the connection so you don't need to set up a VPN for remote access.

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

    The scary part and the reason I never paid is because I think they will shut down plex soon. No one is paying for streaming services anymore and those giants will start coming down on the gov to do something about it. EU is coming down pretty hard on IPTV and torrent sites already.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    The EU shouldn't because most of those streaming services are American. So it's only good for us if people pirate. It offsets some of the tariffs Trump has levied.

    And it's those services' own fault. They offered a decent value for money for years. Now they keep wanting more and more. Rising fees, content disappearing to other platforms but still asking for more money. Adding ads and then asking for money to remove them. Eventually people are sick of it and go like 🖕

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