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Important 2025 Plex Updates

by YourCupOTea on 5/1/25, 6:55 PM with 6 comments

• by dmitrygr on 5/1/25, 7:15 PM

  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?

• by tencentshill on 5/1/25, 9:01 PM

  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.

• by GordonS on 5/2/25, 10:03 AM

  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.