If you are into streaming services and run your own home server to keep a collection of browsable media in one place, Plex should be no stranger to you. However, the news here might upset many Plex ...

It finally happened. My streaming services are all gone. I pay for YouTube Premium still — who would argue with ad-free videos and music streaming for $14 a month — but every other streaming platform ...

One of the biggest features that (controversially) sits behind the Plex paywall is hardware transcoding. This is where a special video encoding chip built into your computer can handle the work of ...

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Plex is a bit hard to explain these days. Even if you don’t know its roots as an outgrowth of a Mac port of the Xbox Media Center project, Plex is not your typical “streaming” service, given how most ...

Hold onto your hats, Plex users: A huge Plex Pass price hike is incoming, along with big changes for Plex Media Server users who want to stream their content remotely. After holding the line in terms ...

Plex is making some major changes to its pricing and features, marking the first time in a decade that its subscription costs are going up. The company announced that Plex Pass, which gives users ...

Starting this week, the Plex app for Roku will require a Remote Watch Pass or Plex Pass for remote streaming. This requirement will be expanded to other platforms, including Android TV, Fire TV, and ...

Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee. Previously, people outside of a server owner’s network could ...

Plex’s new remote viewing limitation is now live, but there’s a significant bug. Users are being told they need a Remote Watch Pass subscription, even when they don’t. A restart of the server will fix ...