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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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[–] FreedomAdvocate 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Ease of use, and actual secure and usable external access.

Friends/family make an account and tell you their account name or email address, you invite them to your library and that’s it, they can watch/listen to your media on pretty much any device they have. No vpn needed.

Jellyfin is not meant to be exposed to the internet for remote viewing. It also doesn’t have a client on most devices people use to watch tv/movies.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 7 points 13 hours ago

Huge disagree on the last part. Jellyfin has a bunch of Android, Roku, Google tv and PC clients. I struggle to think of a device me or my friends use that has a Plex client but not a Jellyfin one.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I've got a bunch of friends accessing my jellyfin server. It has clients for most devices now.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I didn’t say it’s not possible, I said it’s not secure and/or easy.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

It's definitely easy, and the secure part is debatable.