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.

  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    17·
    14 hours ago

    As someone who picked up lifetime for like $45 or whatever it was (I think a 50% off sale?) what must have been 15 years ago…

    I run jellyfin. Its just a better experience IMO.

    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
      4·
      10 hours ago

      I’m sorry but you can hate Plex and prefer jellyfin all you want, but you don’t have to lie. Nothing about jellyfin is a “better experience” than Plex.

      What are some examples?

      • Grapho@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        9 hours ago

        Don’t have to make an account, for starters. Gives you more detailed control of transcoding options, audio playback and whatnot.

        The UI is worse, that much is true, but that’s not the end all be all of user experience.

        • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          Making an account is what allows the easy library sharing and remote streaming, something that Plex is significantly better than JellyFin at.

          What transcoding options does it have that Plex doesn’t?

          • LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            2 hours ago

            How is Plex significantly better than Jellyfin at those things? I can just create a user in 2 seconds on the admin dashboard for Jellyfin, set a temporary password and my friend can log in and change it to whatever they want.

            I can even limit the streaming bitrate to the account if I need to avoid bandwidth issues.