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Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans (www.ign.com)

submitted 4 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] R1x38rexrper@lemmy.ml 35 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Never used Plex. Jellyfin has always met my needs, so I never bothered to try it.

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

Plex has been around quite a while longer than JF. Before JF, the only way to really have a "self-hosted Netflix" was with Plex, so there are a lot of us who built our long-standing media setups around that.

That said, I have a JF instance running and matched almost 1:1 with Plex specifically for this situation, so I'm going to start pivoting everyone to that as I wind Plex down.

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[–] rollerbang@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Meh, I've used dlna with PS2 over 20 years ago. Not exactly the same, but for my needs essentially the same.

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago

That's an interesting method. I actually have a PS2 myself, running PSBBN. Maybe I'll try that out.

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[–] yabai@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

There's a great project called WatchState that allows you to sync show progress between JF and Plex. Highly recommend it for while you're switching over.

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