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Emby Premiere Lifetime Subscription

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Emby is offering Emby Premiere Lifetime Subscription for $99.

Thanks to community member Doxepine for finding this deal.

Note: The license is for single household use and carries a 25 device limit. The terms of service can be found here. Emby is a Personal Media Server platform.

Product Features
  • Offline Media
    • Download your media to your smart phones and tablets for easy offline playback. Supported on Android, iOS and Windows.
  • Emby DVR
    • Schedule individual recordings, series recordings, and more with Emby DVR.
  • Free Apps
    • Enjoy full access to Emby for Android, Fire TV, iOS, Xbox One and PS4.
  • Cover Art
    • The Cover Art plugin creates fun covers and other treatments for your media images. Choose from over 30 different styles of treatments and overlays for 3D, subtitles, audio, and more.
  • Cinema Mode
    • Cinema Mode gives you the true cinema experience with trailers and custom intros before the feature.
  • Cloud Sync
    • Sync your media to the cloud for easy backup, archiving, and converting. Store your content in multiple resolutions to enable direct streaming from any device.
  • Emby Theater
    • The latest and greatest Emby app for your TV. Runs on Windows, Xbox One, PS4, Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.
  • Automatically Convert Content
    • Convert your content into streaming friendly formats on a schedule or when they are added.
  • Folder Sync
    • Sync your media to folders and external hard drives for easy backup, archiving, and converting. Store your content in multiple resolutions to enable direct streaming from any device.
  • Backup and Restore
    • Backup and restore your server configuration with ease, or migrate to a new environment in a snap.
  • Podcasts
    • All your favorite video and audio podcasts in the PodCasts channel.
  • Smart Home
    • Use your Amazon Echo or Google Home device to control your Emby apps by voice.

Editor's Notes

Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
  • About this Service: On cordcutting.com they discuss the differences between Plex and Emby: "So, if it helps, you can think of Emby as a Kodi-lover's Plex. Emby is for the power-users, the Kodi users, and the people who are comfortable trading clean interfaces and easy setup for increased functionality."
  • About this Deal: This offer matches this previously popular FrontPage Deal that received over 60 thumbs up from the community. -slickdewmaster

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Emby is offering Emby Premiere Lifetime Subscription for $99.

Thanks to community member Doxepine for finding this deal.

Note: The license is for single household use and carries a 25 device limit. The terms of service can be found here. Emby is a Personal Media Server platform.

Product Features
  • Offline Media
    • Download your media to your smart phones and tablets for easy offline playback. Supported on Android, iOS and Windows.
  • Emby DVR
    • Schedule individual recordings, series recordings, and more with Emby DVR.
  • Free Apps
    • Enjoy full access to Emby for Android, Fire TV, iOS, Xbox One and PS4.
  • Cover Art
    • The Cover Art plugin creates fun covers and other treatments for your media images. Choose from over 30 different styles of treatments and overlays for 3D, subtitles, audio, and more.
  • Cinema Mode
    • Cinema Mode gives you the true cinema experience with trailers and custom intros before the feature.
  • Cloud Sync
    • Sync your media to the cloud for easy backup, archiving, and converting. Store your content in multiple resolutions to enable direct streaming from any device.
  • Emby Theater
    • The latest and greatest Emby app for your TV. Runs on Windows, Xbox One, PS4, Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.
  • Automatically Convert Content
    • Convert your content into streaming friendly formats on a schedule or when they are added.
  • Folder Sync
    • Sync your media to folders and external hard drives for easy backup, archiving, and converting. Store your content in multiple resolutions to enable direct streaming from any device.
  • Backup and Restore
    • Backup and restore your server configuration with ease, or migrate to a new environment in a snap.
  • Podcasts
    • All your favorite video and audio podcasts in the PodCasts channel.
  • Smart Home
    • Use your Amazon Echo or Google Home device to control your Emby apps by voice.

Editor's Notes

Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
  • About this Service: On cordcutting.com they discuss the differences between Plex and Emby: "So, if it helps, you can think of Emby as a Kodi-lover's Plex. Emby is for the power-users, the Kodi users, and the people who are comfortable trading clean interfaces and easy setup for increased functionality."
  • About this Deal: This offer matches this previously popular FrontPage Deal that received over 60 thumbs up from the community. -slickdewmaster

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userroot
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While i prefer emby over plex, their 25 device limit that you cannot see or control is a joke. They really need to improve that.
Haloboy89
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Turned off by the 25 device limit and that some of the client apps require premium or pay-to-unlock.

Switched to the free and open source JellyFin and never looked back.
Virtual69
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Used to be lots of discussion on their discussion board about it. They couldn't get why their customers thought it was a big deal. I've never purchased it because of it.

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shahzadquraishiNov 26, 2021 04:04 AM
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With buying if you already have Plex? Is this better?
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gilbreathprincipleNov 26, 2021 04:53 AM
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How does the EMBY dvr work? Is it anything like Channels DVR, where we add our sources by providers like Spectrum, Frontier, Youtube TV, and then it pulls the TVE channels? Or, is it more like Plex's DVR where you need more hardware like HD Homerun tuners and you log in to your own cable provider? If so, nothing beats Channels DVR.
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Quote from shahzadquraishi :
With buying if you already have Plex? Is this better?
It depends on your needs and what you like better. They are very similar. Plex is tried and true and emby is up and coming. I've had great experiences with Emby and chose to continue with their services. I'd compare and contrast the differences to see what's right for you. There are many articles online that compare these two services.

https://www.online-tech-tips.com/...r-for-you/
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Quote from shahzadquraishi :
With buying if you already have Plex? Is this better?
I have both lifetime subs for plex and emby (back all the way to when it was called mediabrowser). I've gone back and forth between the apps, most recently I've been primarily using emby on my nvidia shield. Plex has more device support.. to me that is about the biggest difference.
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soultar1Nov 26, 2021 05:31 AM
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If you ordered Plex off of Wish.
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While i prefer emby over plex, their 25 device limit that you cannot see or control is a joke. They really need to improve that.
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Quote from userroot :
While i prefer emby over plex, their 25 device limit that you cannot see or control is a joke. They really need to improve that.
Used to be lots of discussion on their discussion board about it. They couldn't get why their customers thought it was a big deal. I've never purchased it because of it.
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Quote from Virtual69 :
Used to be lots of discussion on their discussion board about it. They couldn't get why their customers thought it was a big deal. I've never purchased it because of it.
Yea... they may code but their business decisions are somewhat... lets leave it at that.
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Quote from shahzadquraishi :
With buying if you already have Plex? Is this better?
I chose Emby because it is much more flexible. I have several friends with disabilities, and so the fact that Emby is much more willing to accept plug-ins was definitely of interest. While there is still no plug-in for descriptive audio (for my blind friends), multiple options for closed captioning allowed me to find the one that worked best.
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Turned off by the 25 device limit and that some of the client apps require premium or pay-to-unlock.

Switched to the free and open source JellyFin and never looked back.
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CyanCorn8418Nov 26, 2021 08:30 AM
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Quote from goggles99 :
It appears that it is just an interface for you to get to your media served to any device that is on the internet. You have to store the media on your own computer?, very strange to me. Why would you need a service for this? aren't there applications that can just sit on your server and do this without a paid subscription, just a forwarded port from your server or PC? This may make thing a bit easier to configure and has a nice interface, but seems a bit overpriced for a media front end. If you want to stream live TV, to your phone again, you are providing the media source with a tv tuner.
I think the payment is primarily to do with the epg interface that all the clients can have. They started to include epg data as well so I've probably saved around $60 over the past few years not having to pay for scheds direct...

You can also hook up iptv providers into the epg and be able to muck around with it using a virtual tv provider where you can get your own custom channels created.

There is a free variant called jellyfin that I'd probably use if I haven't already paid for emby 7 years ago. I don't know if that one gets free epg data or what but where I exist that's what it's always boiled down to - needing to pay someone for the epg data...
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dfeghaliNov 26, 2021 09:31 AM
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I do not have Emby or Plex, and I am thinking about getting lifetime, but witch is really better? For video playback? Music shuffles, etc..?
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Emby is ok. But, if you're going to pay, just go for Plex & Plex Pass. It's is the most mature and feature-rich media streamer. If you're looking for an alternative, check out Jellyfin - a very promising competitor that's open source and free.
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