Plex pass 40% off for Black Friday... includes lifetime for $150

Tumbleweed7200

Nov 21, 2025 9:45 PM

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Tumbleweed7200Nov 21, 2025 9:45 PM

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Thanks! Been waiting for this since they disabled remote play (non-relay) last year

nurrburt

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nurrburtNov 21, 2025 9:48 PM

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Waiting for Emby's BF deal

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zdiddy987

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Nov 21, 2025 9:51 PM

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zdiddy987

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Nov 21, 2025 9:51 PM

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Can somebody share a link to a video just showing a person using Plex

All I can find is annoying reviews - I just want a video of what it does

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JoeJoeBlow90

Nov 21, 2025 9:51 PM

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Quote from a_land

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Expensive but it's still best you can get if you're interested in the concept

Jellyfin is free. That's the best you can get lol

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tumengio

Nov 21, 2025 10:28 PM

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tumengioNov 21, 2025 10:28 PM

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If you're in the Apple ecosystem, Jellyfin's weakness is the Apple TV app. You can use Infuse as the frontend, but an Infuse lifetime license is $100.

Is Plex worth $150? Maybe. Its biggest issue is bloat and clutter these days, but everyone I know seems to like it.

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LovelyBreakfast5218

Nov 21, 2025 10:37 PM

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LovelyBreakfast5218Nov 21, 2025 10:37 PM

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On one hand, Plex is an incredible value if you have a personal digital media collection, especially if you want to share your collection with friends. But between the new UI, removal of features like 'Watch Together', and a decreased focused on personal media, the enshittification seems to have begun.

If you're not sharing your library with other, Jellyfin probably suits your needs for free.

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eekster

Nov 21, 2025 10:50 PM

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Quote from LovelyBreakfast5218

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On one hand, Plex is an incredible value if you have a personal digital media collection, especially if you want to share your collection with friends. But between the new UI, removal of features like 'Watch Together', and a decreased focused on personal media, the enshittification seems to have begun.

If you're not sharing your library with other, Jellyfin probably suits your needs for free.

JF can be shared with tailscale

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TexusSooner

Nov 22, 2025 12:16 AM

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Quote from eekster

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Switched to JF and have not looked back.

Tried it and switched back. Plex just works, for any media I've ever want to consume with it (DVR for OTA? Also a check), and simple enough app. Jellyfin just required too much fidgeting around with shit But alas I also bought this ages ago when it was sub $100

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TexusSooner

Nov 22, 2025 12:19 AM

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Quote from shogunreaper

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That's hardly a weakness since it can be solved with a $20-30 Onn box android tv box. If you're not limiting yourself to plex then why limit yourself to apple tv? Walled gardens are bad.

This is the problem with the Jellyfin crowd "I can solve that by doing something nobody is asking for"Apple TV users aren't using shitty $10 Android boxes for reasons, the point still remains in that Jellyfin's AppleTV app sucks, you can clearly see others share that sentiment. Mine was the same and I switched back to Plex because they actually get paid to fix shit and maintain what they have. The open source community just doesn't, very dismissive and would just have your response vs fix their shit

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duckeggs

Nov 22, 2025 12:20 AM

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Quote from markus2300

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100% agree...plex can stick it where the sun don't shine....

and where is that???

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axemexa

Nov 22, 2025 12:22 AM

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Quote from eekster

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Switched to JF and have not looked back.

I tried Jellyfinn for a few minutes and didn't like the UI. What's the benefit of switching?

Edit: just opened Jellyfin and it's still showing movies I deleted months ago. Plex doesn't do this.

Doing a manual rescan fixed it but I would think it would just scan automatically.

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eekster

Nov 22, 2025 12:38 AM

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Quote from TexusSooner

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Tried it and switched back. Plex just works, for any media I've ever want to consume with it (DVR for OTA? Also a check), and simple enough app. Jellyfin just required too much fidgeting around with shit But alas I also bought this ages ago when it was sub $100

I get that. Jelly has changed quite a bit since I first tried it, Last year I ran it side by side and yes there was a slight learning curve, I prefer it now over plex but since you already have the pass no reason to change until you get sick of the bloat & corporate BS. The only thing I don't like is the music library side.

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ThinkingCritically

Nov 22, 2025 2:12 AM

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ThinkingCriticallyNov 22, 2025 2:12 AM

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Wow. I bought this for 99 in 2022.

Hheeyy000

Nov 22, 2025 2:39 AM

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Hheeyy000Nov 22, 2025 2:39 AM

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$150 for plex? Nawwwww

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