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Plex To Launch a Store For Movies and TV Shows

https:// entertainment.slashdot.org /story/24/01/19/2134259/plex-to-launch-a-store-for-movies-and-tv-shows

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Time to move to jellyfin I guess

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- Jellyfins pretty great. It's much simpler than Plex and has quite a few less features, but it does what it does really well
  
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  What are some missing features? I'm only familiar with jellyfin
  
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  Sadly in the 4 years I'm using it jellyfin still couldn't figure out how to correctly display series season covers and has some streaming bugs (no audio when audio is DTS and PGS subs are enabled ect)
  
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- The lifetime license is definitely declining in value.
  
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  Agreed, but we probably all knew it had to decline at some point. Nothing is really free.
  
  I'm just glad I feel like I definitely got my money's worth. Feb 2014 is when I got it. So 10 years, 75$. I cant complain 😂
  
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- Sorry, why are we switching away from Plex because of this? Genuinely asking.
  
  E: Wow at the downvotes to an honest question. 🥲
  
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  See my long winded response here
  
  https://lemmy.ca/comment/6529326
  
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- Emby is good
  
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- Wow, the option to purchase things is really that bad huh?
  
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  If you follow the history, you'd get it. Just another nail in the coffin.
  
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Plex is a prime example how corporate shenanigans can ruin an otherwise great piece of software.

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I’m old enough to have not trusted Plex since the original XBMC split.

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- I still have an original Xbox with Xbmc on it lol
  
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  Yeah I think I do too in the attic somewhere. Mid chips on those things where a bitch back then when it first started up. I think they got better though.
  
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  My man.
  
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I was trying to think how Plex thinks this is going to play out, knowing that this move will piss off their customer base. Then I realized, this isn't a play for Plex's existing customer base. This is a play for their customer's "friends and family" that are enjoying shared libraries already.

Their 'customer' base has for many many years been developing a large user base of technologically naive people with Plex apps installed who could never run their own server. If Plex knows, for example, that for every paying customer there's three other users pulling from someone's library, that's a huge opportunity for them to convert those users to paying customers.

Everyone that set up a Plex server and then shared it with your tech-phobic parents, cousins, friends, etc... We made this possible.

I don't like it but I can't argue with the logic from Plex here.

-edit- Tightened up the grammar.

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- Is that bad though? I don't mind renting a movie I really like even if my friend has it on their Plex. Especially if it's from a small studio. Currently I do that via Google TV. Plex Inc being a small private company might use the money better than a publicly traded giant. I wouldn't mind my friends and family spending a few bucks on it either.
  
  Of course if Plex starts enshitifying existing private streaming features to push this, that'll be another matter altogether. Which would not be unexpected.
  
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  Yeah, I've been switched to using Jellyfin anyways. I hope they can do this successfully. They haven't been the best for a while anyways..
  
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- Yikes this is a good theory. Eventually we will be snuffed out. Sharing will stop. Etc.
  
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  Well maybe not. Without the shared libraries I doubt the tech-phobic users will stick around for movies they can likely find other places, especially since I doubt Plex gets very good deals for content.
  
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  I wouldn't be so sure if that. It's possible, yeah, but if my theory is right they see the library sharing as the carrot to get normies to download the plex app onto their roku or apple TV.
  
  Pivoting to a streaming only app would close off that avenue for user acquisition permanently.
  
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- I like this theory and I hope your logic check out. I am a little worried that I will have to make a change soon.
  
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The irony is just chefs kiss,

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The Slashdot post points to this article https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/18/24043706/plex-store-movies-tv-shows

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If its DRM free its not a problem.

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- Not until it's a mandatory popup or recommendation any time you want to watch. Or maybe mandatory ads and popups on "new releases". With Plex, nothing surprises me now.
  
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  Well I use Jellyfin as I don't want proprietary software on my system and this isn't making me have any regrets. The benefit of Plex is what again?
  
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  Yeah this “pretty major UX refresh” line bothers me A LOT. Kinda like when Amazon fucked up the UX/UI on the cheap fire tv sticks.
  
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- It would be great, but no chance in hell movie studios would go along with this.
  
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  Yeah, I know
  
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Imo this is not enshitification yet, but I'm concerned it could pave the way! It all depends on whether they make using your own content harder to promote this, or if it's just a side hustle to add another revenue stream.

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Yes, That's why I run a Plex server, totally. Morons.

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i miss old plex (~2016), when it was actually focused on providing local content, good thing jellyfin exist

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