Plex disables streaming your own media unless you pay, destroying the one and only use Plex had...wow
Reddit's /r/plex is full of similar feedback. Previously, free streaming of your own media was a way for them to possibly draw you in to their paid offerings. Now how will they acquire customers?
Plex is kind of a victim of its own success. Its best bet is that it's an easier / more feature-rich solution than the alternatives (Jellyfin). I am a Plex Pass subscriber so my family and friends should be unaffected by this change but I imagine many people will start switching to Jellyfin or some other alternative.
This many major changes this quickly isn't a good sign. What costs are even associated with streaming my own hosted media to my own devices? There's an external Relay option available, but that's only used as a fallback option.
To be clear... does this mean that I won't be able to stream media from my PC/NAS to my TV any more? I mean... that's a pretty basic function of any streaming software, so hopefully I'm misunderstanding this?
In any case, I've mostly moved over to Jellyfin now that there is a decent app for it available on my Amazon Fire Stick. Have to say, Jellyfin may have been clunky in the past, but now it's a real alternative to Plex.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 23.9 ms ] threadReddit's /r/plex is full of similar feedback. Previously, free streaming of your own media was a way for them to possibly draw you in to their paid offerings. Now how will they acquire customers?
In any case, I've mostly moved over to Jellyfin now that there is a decent app for it available on my Amazon Fire Stick. Have to say, Jellyfin may have been clunky in the past, but now it's a real alternative to Plex.