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.

  • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    Spoiler: They can’t. There is no Roku Tailscale app. AppleTV recently got VPN support.

    Everyone loves to yell “Jellyfin” without realizing all of the shortcomings because it’s free.

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      23 hours ago

      I’m willing to work past a lot of shortcomings when the alternative is $750. Plus anything learning how to overcome those shortcomings will have benefits beyond just setting up jellyfin.

        • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

          Tailscale was suggested above as an easier alternative to setting up a reverse proxy. If tailscale isn’t a good option, then I would push forward with getting a reverse proxy setup.

    • ItsNotImportant24@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      24 hours ago

      Well, I have no shortcomings with it, so yeah I yell Jellyfin. We have both of our tvs on cheap android boxes with it and tailscale installed and our phones with it installed to remotely access. A few extra steps to set it up? Yes, but extremely worth it and easy to access and use once it is set up. Worth the cost savings in the end? Yes. Jellyfin also does everything we need including more that we dont and also has a ton of amazing plugin support to add alot of cool features. Oh, yeah its open-source. So, yeah I think Jellyfin offers alot to be yelled about.

        • ItsNotImportant24@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          10 hours ago

          You would have to set up tailscale on the actual server first. Then, for the app on another device, such as the Roku streamer, does it have the Playstore or app store to install apps? If so then you would download the tailscale app and connect it to your newly setup tailscale account. If it doesn’t then as I have mentioned, you could buy a cheap android box, such as the Onn 4K at Walmart for like 25-30 bucks or spend a little more for a better android box and install it on that. Its a few extra steps but way worth it in the end.