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frontpage Posted by scrapplejoe • Mar 20, 2025
frontpage Posted by scrapplejoe • Mar 20, 2025

Lifetime Plex Pass

(Price Increasing to $250 on April 29th)

$120

$250

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Update: This popular deal is still available. Last day to purchase April 29th 2025.

Note: Despite this product being offered at regular pricing, we are promoting it on the front page due to the overwhelmingly positive feedback from our community.

Plex.tv has its Lifetime Plex Pass for $119.99 (Price Increasing to $249.99 on April 29th).

Thanks to Community Member scrapplejoe & Deal Hunter Eragorn [Discuss] for sharing this news.

Note, If you want to secure a Lifetime Plex Pass at the current price of $119.99, you have until April 29, 2025. After this date, prices for existing monthly and yearly subscriptions will automatically increase upon renewal.

Current USD prices:
  • Monthly: $4.99
  • Yearly: $39.99
  • Lifetime: $119.99
New USD prices as of April 29, 2025 will be:
  • Monthly: $6.99
  • Yearly: $69.99
  • Lifetime: $249.99
Plex Pass Features:
  • Sync your movies, shows, music, and photos to your mobile devices for offline enjoyment wherever you go.
  • Unlock the power to set extra sharing restrictions and allow access to select premium features for shared users.
  • Track your server stats with our desktop Dashboard or on the go using Plex Dash.
  • Set max upload bandwidth and per-stream caps to ensure the best streaming experience.
  • Use the dedicated video decoder and encoder hardware support in your computer/device to convert videos and stream HD or 4K video more smoothly to more devices at once

Editor's Notes

Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • If users want to secure a Lifetime Plex Pass at the current price of $119.99 USD, they have until April 29, 2025. After this date, prices for existing monthly and yearly subscriptions will automatically increase at their next renewal.
    • Please visit this link for more information.
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Written by scrapplejoe
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Update: This popular deal is still available. Last day to purchase April 29th 2025.

Note: Despite this product being offered at regular pricing, we are promoting it on the front page due to the overwhelmingly positive feedback from our community.

Plex.tv has its Lifetime Plex Pass for $119.99 (Price Increasing to $249.99 on April 29th).

Thanks to Community Member scrapplejoe & Deal Hunter Eragorn [Discuss] for sharing this news.

Note, If you want to secure a Lifetime Plex Pass at the current price of $119.99, you have until April 29, 2025. After this date, prices for existing monthly and yearly subscriptions will automatically increase upon renewal.

Current USD prices:
  • Monthly: $4.99
  • Yearly: $39.99
  • Lifetime: $119.99
New USD prices as of April 29, 2025 will be:
  • Monthly: $6.99
  • Yearly: $69.99
  • Lifetime: $249.99
Plex Pass Features:
  • Sync your movies, shows, music, and photos to your mobile devices for offline enjoyment wherever you go.
  • Unlock the power to set extra sharing restrictions and allow access to select premium features for shared users.
  • Track your server stats with our desktop Dashboard or on the go using Plex Dash.
  • Set max upload bandwidth and per-stream caps to ensure the best streaming experience.
  • Use the dedicated video decoder and encoder hardware support in your computer/device to convert videos and stream HD or 4K video more smoothly to more devices at once

Editor's Notes

Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • If users want to secure a Lifetime Plex Pass at the current price of $119.99 USD, they have until April 29, 2025. After this date, prices for existing monthly and yearly subscriptions will automatically increase at their next renewal.
    • Please visit this link for more information.
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Written by scrapplejoe

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I think it's important to clarify that remote streaming will be allowed for all invited users if the server administrator (owner) is a Plex Pass subscriber - if the administrator is not a subscriber then each user will need to either be a Plex Pass subscriber or a Remote View subscriber.

If you currently have lifetime/active subscription, your unpaid users/viewers will benefit from this by no longer having to buy the $5 one-time-fee unlocking of the Android or IOS app (this is nice for my in-laws who forget their google password and decide it's easier to make a new account than recover their password, ugh).

Eventually this may flow down to some negative impact on PP lifetime subs, but this announcement isn't as gloom and doom as some are making it.
Also know, plex is will be changing its policy and will only allow remote streaming outside your network IF you are a subscriber. So, if you have family that watch an occasional show... they won't be able to access plex soon.
Jellyfin is looking better and better every day.

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Mar 24, 2025
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NathanielM7087
Mar 24, 2025
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Quote from netscorer :
Just get yourself a Jellyfin and stop supporting predatory practice of companies that hide useful featured behind paywall while raising the prices. I've been using Jellyfin for my movie and TV show collection for the past 8 months and the support is absolutely top notch. My N100 NAS device transcodes any codec with hardly any sweating.

How is jellyfisns android auto interface?
Mar 24, 2025
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watwat
Mar 24, 2025
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Quote from JayhawkDeals :
I sincerely doubt they are "hemorrhaging" folks. And emphasis on the word arguably - jelly and emby have their pros/cons, but very few people are going to say they are across the board better.

Jelly is free which is cool, but nobody ever talks about forcing me to rename all my content files. Just show me the name of the file as is, I don't care about your auto metadata look up and matching.
Mar 24, 2025
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bieberwhole69
Mar 24, 2025
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everyone talkin about jellyfin... tried setting it up tonight... wouldn't work properly... kept getting a loading circle of death when trying to add my media folders... let it go for 2 hours.. nothing... so tried just adding a single folder from a show.... but when trying to play some 4k hdr content... it would freeze. plex has been plug-and-play for me for the most part.
Mar 24, 2025
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Serg86
Mar 24, 2025
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Quote from BrianK7523 :
This is the only bummer to me. I bought the iphone app for our phones so we can remotely stream. Not a fan of paying for something to have it revoked at a later date.

Agree, I wonder if Plex mentioned anything about that specifically? 🤔

I think it would be fair to offer a lifetime remote watch for these devices.
Mar 24, 2025
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Serg86
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Quote from 181day :
It's your content on your PC using your internet and electric...

Tell this to Microsoft or Adobe, please Smilie
Mar 24, 2025
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xemods
Mar 24, 2025
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How long until the server owner AND users will need a "Plex Pass"?.... 😡
Mar 24, 2025
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mgolden
Mar 24, 2025
185 Posts
Quote from JakeCourtney :
I don't have a GPU on the Plex Server yet and it sucks ass on a low power i3 CPU for any kind of transcoding. What cards can I find now that will work good for it that are almost purpose built for that task and cheaper?
This list is a bit out of date, but it gives you an idea.

https://www.elpamsoft.com/?p=Plex...ranscoding

Basically almost any Nvidia 3GB or better card will be night and day difference for you. Personally I went with a Tesla P4 for $80 and 3D printed a fan holder for it. But that's a bit overkill, at the low end if you can find a GTX 1060 card for cheap that'd do the trick.

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LuisG9065
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Quote from mgolden :
This list is a bit out of date, but it gives you an idea.

https://www.elpamsoft.com/?p=Plex...ranscoding

Basically almost any Nvidia 3GB or better card will be night and day difference for you. Personally I went with a Tesla P4 for $80 and 3D printed a fan holder for it. But that's a bit overkill, at the low end if you can find a GTX 1060 card for cheap that'd do the trick.

Intel arc graphic cards are fairly cheap and work well. I just bought one and it seems to hold up so far.
Mar 24, 2025
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mrhazey
Mar 24, 2025
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Quote from bieberwhole69 :
everyone talkin about jellyfin... tried setting it up tonight... wouldn't work properly... kept getting a loading circle of death when trying to add my media folders... let it go for 2 hours.. nothing... so tried just adding a single folder from a show.... but when trying to play some 4k hdr content... it would freeze. plex has been plug-and-play for me for the most part.

I got my jellyfin working locally last week after some tinkering but the files were named/categorized incorrectly. Then I realized I needed to do a bunch more work to allow it to be accessible remotely (external network) in case I was not home. Definitely not easy for the non-tech savvy folks.
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edrock200
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Quote from sampsonti :
I have nesn on cable… does this count?? I just want to use my mobile device?


Thanks
No, this is not for that use case. It has some live-tv capabilities but thats more for OTA channels or if you want to get more advanced you can pipe in IPTV streams with 3rd party programs that simulate an OTA tuner device.
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Quote from mrhazey :
I got my jellyfin working locally last week after some tinkering but the files were named/categorized incorrectly. Then I realized I needed to do a bunch more work to allow it to be accessible remotely (external network) in case I was not home. Definitely not easy for the non-tech savvy folks.
Fair, but keep in mind this is also somewhat by design. The port opening, they could add UPnP if they haven't already. However needing to manually put in IP:port or DNS:port into client is because Jellyfin is isolated and "free-standing." By that I mean it doesn't report to any central server or service to update/publish your servers address, handle authentication, etc the way Plex and Emby does. This is where it excels in privacy. But agree from a convenience of setup/use perspective, it takes extra steps to get going for remote streaming.
Mar 24, 2025
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cb56789
Mar 24, 2025
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three lifetime passes i got that are totally worth the money: 1. plex, 2. Winscribe, 3. hwinfo64
Mar 24, 2025
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HabSo
Mar 24, 2025
57 Posts
Quote from Wulfrax :
More than doubling the price is a tactic to phase it out without needing to phase it out.

Plex lifetime has been amazing for me. I was a free user for years. Once you go paid and get trailers, skip intro, skip credits - gamechanger. So much value there just on those simple QOL things.

My fingers are tired, please fast fwd the intro for me!
Mar 24, 2025
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bonkman
Mar 24, 2025
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Quote from sampsonti :
I have nesn on cable… does this count?? I just want to use my mobile device?


Thanks

To do this, you need to get a hdhomerun prime tv tuner. It works with Plex.

Go Sox!

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Quote from edrock200 :
No, this is not for that use case. It has some live-tv capabilities but thats more for OTA channels or if you want to get more advanced you can pipe in IPTV streams with 3rd party programs that simulate an OTA tuner device.

That's not really true. You can set up an hdhomerun prime with Plex. You'd need to get one of those and a cable card from your provider.

Most people don't do this because most Plex users are cord cutters, hence using OTA. But it's technically possible and enables making your own cable DVR and casting service.
Last edited by bonkman March 24, 2025 at 03:55 PM.

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