Important 2025 Plex Updates
Important 2025 Plex Updates
www.plex.tv Important 2025 Plex Updates
Personal Media and Beyond You’re going to be hearing a lot from us this year—we’ve got a ton of exciting...
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Tl;Dr
- Plex pass price increase (6.99/mo, 69.99/yr)
- Non-LAN streaming from a personal Plex server will require either server owner or user to have Plex pass or the new "remote watch" subscription tier
- No more $5 mobile unlock fee to watch in the mobile app, but now there will be a $2/mo "remote watch" subscription tier that unlocks remote streaming mentioned above
I'm glad this won't affect Plex pass (lifetime for over a decade in my case) users who are sharing their server with non-paying friends, but I also hope this entices more development in Jellyfin. If Plex decided to make it so that my non-paying friends can't stream easily from my paid for Plex server, I need jellyfin to be a good alternative, and it currently doesn't appeal to any of the friends I share with so something like that would probably get my friends to switch back to paid streaming.
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Jellyfin took a little setup, but it works great for me. Down side is I don't currently know of a good way to access the media from outside my network. Maybe a RTFM issue I haven't dealt with yet since I run both.
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I just set up traefik for both Plex and jellyfin - the config is almost identical. Unfortunately none of my friends choose to use Jellyfin, probably because the official apps don't look as nice. I would use it but certain files just don't play for some reason and I haven't had the time to investigate. Plus I'm still waiting for Findroid on android TV to be in a working state.
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We are also making changes to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service (ToS). In this revised policy, we provide more detail about the data we collect and why, how we may use it, and how we may share/sell it. For anyone that created a Plex account before March 20, 2025, there is no change. At a later date we will ask for your consent to these additional uses.
Incredibly concerning. I’ve been using Plex for years due to its ease of use but I’ll definitely be spinning up a Jellyfin instance and seeing if I can get the same/similar functionality from it.
Because I know at least one person will comment about how great Jellyfin is; do you know whether there’s a WebOS client for Jellyfin?
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Yes, I use jellyfin on an oldish LG TV with jellyfin app on webos.
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Lovely! Thanks for your help.
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Been using Jellyfin to share media with family and friends, locally and remotely, for a couple years. Very happy and can recommend.
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Is your PS5 on the same network?
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