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Yes, it's been cheaper before but it doesn't seem like a targeted discount code this time around.
Standard price is $159.99 AUD
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Plex Pass Lifetime Subscription A$133.32 @ Plex
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Even though the email does say it’s $99.99US, obviously something weird is going with their site and conversation, so probably best to just remove the US$ price from the title as it’s just confusing.
I'm not sure they even do actually convert USD to AUD. I bought the lifetime pass last time I got an email about it, it was advertised as US$74.99, which converted to about ~AUD$130 at the time. Was happy to pay that so I decided to get it, when I put in the code it reduced to AUD$99.99 at the payment screen. Went through with it and it definitely only charged me that amount.
@MitchyD1989: Yeah doesn't seem that they do at all, just strange they send the email saying $99US and then give a totally different price to us here as you'd think if it was in AU$ it would just be their form of currency conversion, rather than actually giving a much cheaper price here in comparison.
what a combination.
I just got the same email, for me it comes down to 17% off the standard lifetime sub.
Just upgraded (put it off for 5 years…..)
Can confirm it worked for me. Thanks OP for sharing, I've been looking for a code for the last few months :)
Same - I've put it off for many many year. Can confirm code still works this morning.
Most confusing website ever! Can someone please explain if I need a tuner or antenna or not to watch some sport channels like ESPN, SportHD, etc? And what is advantages and disadvantages if I don't have a tuner/antenna?
you need tuner, antenna and plex pass to watch live tv (free to air tv as well)
What can you do with this?
Plex is for managing your own media and acting as a media server to your and family/friends devices. It's not a primary source of media itself (although they're starting to add some feeds).
What was a simple app that just worked has become very complex and convoluted now, although it does have plenty more features nowadays. Not entirely convinced with premium yet as don't see value in any of the added perks.
Where do you get the media from in the first place? Isn't the internet a media server already. Unless you're sharing your own created content. I just don't see it.
My brother downloads every tv show and movie under the sun to his media server running plex. He has it hooked up to his tv so he can watch it on there or you can stream it to any device anywhere eg phone or tablet while at work or travelling. You can also add users so anyone can stream from the same server. Istream from my brother's plex library all the time.
@samfisher5986: for TV shows, most are published in 720p which is good enough.. Thought if you look into services such as usenet with automated downloader like sickbeard, you're likely to find what your looking for in 1080p.
@giventofly: We can take this to PM if you like, I can show you how much the site is lacking and how the quality is poor.
@giventofly: Congratulations you got a very common and recent show, from what I assume is a torrent site.
Thats not what I'm talking about at all, otherwise PM me the 4k streaming link so I can see the obvious lack of quality, resolution means nothing.
@samfisher5986: On "those sites" it's still extremely easy to find 1080/2160 season packs from web-rips, hd-rips through to bd-rips, at various levels of compression. Hell, for many movies the BD remux is there. Just gotta know where to look.
@ashanrath: I assume you are talking about torrents then?
you don't find "packs" on streaming sites, unless you just confused the wording.
@samfisher5986: Just re-read your comment, unless I'm blind only your most recent comments even mentioned streaming. Most people who are looking for a decent quality don't bother with streaming. Too many quality sacrifices for the sake of bandwidth. You're not exactly going to be getting BD quality streamed in real time no matter what connection you have. Even Disney+/Netflix/Prime in 4k are heavily compressed from the original source material. Don't get me wrong, they look good, but not great.
This is exactly what Plex/Jellfin/Emby etc are aimed at, streaming high quality LAN hosted files to other devices on the same LAN, where bandwidth is not an issue.
@ashanrath: Are you serious?
Plex is literally a streaming app, and this is the thread we are in, of course I'm talking about streaming.
The whole point of plex is to stream in high quality in a convienent way to multiple people, including outside the home.
Torrents have been around for a long time and will always have everything, although speeds are slow for a lot of content on public sites.
As someone who has used both private and public sites, its in no way comparable to having your content ready on Plex.
@samfisher5986: Of course, 100% agree with that. The part I disagree with is your comment that the material is hard to find in high quality to use in Plex.
If I was to ask you to get an entire season in 1080p, within a reasonable amount of time, you likely couldn't unless you were part of a private site of sorts, and thats if I was to ask for something very popular and recentish.
Most media is hard to find, especially in decent quality.
High quality media to use in Plex is absolutely not hard to find, on very public sites.
@ashanrath: You seem to have trouble reading.
Website Streaming = Bad Quality
Public Torrent Downloads = Slow
Private Torrent Downloads = Limited variety, lack of seeds or insane requirements to get in and upload back.Please don't mix them up.
Website Streaming = Bad Quality
100% agree.
Public Torrent Downloads = Slow
Eh, define slow? Recently added stuff can be very fast. Getting 70MBps+ right now on a 700Mbps connection for a single file. I think you'll find for most of Australia that their internet connection is much more of a bottleneck than the torrent.
@ashanrath: Thats my point, recently added stuff is great, but the whole point of Plex is that its saved ready to watch, no need to worry about if your content is popular, or even too rare to find at all.
For a lot of content that isn't super popular the speeds you can get drop dramatically very quickly as it ages.
Obviously this all comes at a storage cost, but thats the point of Plex.
There is also a huge convenience factor of using Usenet instead.
@samfisher5986: I'm on the TOP private trackers for their respective categories and they definitely do not lack variety.
@samfisher5986: Completely different kettle of fish streaming over LAN with plex vs streaming over WAN (internet) from stream sites with high compression. No one is saying streaming website on the internet are any good, just you.
@Kill Joy: I'm literally responding to love2buy, explaining why downloading content to host on Plex is the way to go.
You are the one coming in making stupid claims and being very vague.
@samfisher5986: Jeez by the time i type my message and clicked send you had replied 2 or 3 more times, sorry. What got you so worked up today? Isolation getting to you?
@samfisher5986: Yeah but its just funny that you cryptically told us that 'getting' good quality media quickly is not possible, When challenged you got immature about it and only after a myriad of passive aggressiveness you then specified streaming where we would all 100% agree with you if we knew you were talking about streaming sites.
@Kill Joy: Literally my second comment after replying to someone specifically talking about streaming in a streaming thread mentioned google drive and bandwidth for hosting videos and how these services are about not needing to download.
How does that sound like torrenting?
@samfisher5986: Did i mention torrents? Are you familiar with Usenet as mentioned in my comment?
* Is a host
* has bandwidth
* Is not a stream provider
* has a plethora of high quality filesYou clearly said you know what websites i was talking about, but you may need to do some googling.
@Kill Joy: As I said, i was talking about streaming.
Usenet is not streaming. I use usenet myself.
Maybe if you read things correctly the first time…
@samfisher5986: Okay so lets get the timeline straight:
- someone asks what the point of PLEX is
-some one else says he downloads media and streams from his PLEX machine
- you say its too hard to 'get' (not stream or download, but 'get') high quality content quickly
- I suggest Usenet because 'get' is a general term including streaming, p2p, usenet, ftp, whatever
- You get 'mightier then thou' and say you know exactly what sites im talking about when you're clearly still thinking about streams and no one else is
- You've now created a confusing messthen queue your passive aggression. I hope you see what went wrong and how you might avoid it in the future.
@samfisher5986: I'm using a Radarr, Sonarr, Plex system with a combination of public and private trackers and usenet, anytime I request a show / movie it finds the best quality version and it's on my Plex server in 20 minutes max. A lot of the time these are from public trackers, just my two cents.
@BeerCrisp: I'm lazy and just use popcorn time now days. My main HTPC with Radarr/Sonarr had it's primary SSD fail and i haven't been bothered to set it up again. It's as reliable as torrents are, which isn't very. You've reminded me I should probably get around to replacing that drive and restoring my backup.
@samfisher5986: I'm on some of those so called "private sites", and i can easily find any series I've ever looked for in 1080p blu-ray, or even 4K + HDR (if a HDR version exists).
@samfisher5986: Im not "part of a private site of sorts" and have no trouble getting anything i want in any resolution (720p 1080p 4k).
I haven't looked at Plex in years and years. I've been using (since the early W7 MCE days) Mediabrowser/Emby.
Any real difference between the 2??
Emby looks great and allows playing between other devices (ie: iPhone) and sorts the media, metadata, etc.
Is it a case of "same same" nowadays?
Look at Jellyfin. It's a more open fork of Emby without any of the features behind a premium paywall.
If you're interested in Jellyfin, you can transfer the watched status of your media to Jellyfin using Emby2Jelly
I'd look into Infuse if you have newer Apple devices or a really slow server computer.
IMO Jellyfin is much better, and best of all, free
Never heard of Jellyfin, but looks very interesting. Big thing for me is if you can cast to Chromecast and download sites to phone (currently a Plex premium feature).
It’s a fork of Emby. Once Emby went premium, Jellyfin was born.
I can confirm both are possible in Jellyfin.
Thanks, definitely looking into this one then. I also meant download *shows (the autocorrect inventor can go to help).
Can jellyfin stream to multiple users ie. Friends and family as easily?
@G Wok: As well as the computer it's on allows - you'll get similar performance to Emby. If it's a low-end NAS, don't expect miracles.
Do you have any experience using live TV with jellyfin? I've got it setup on Ubuntu server side by side with plex using the same hd home run quatro. On their dashboards both direct play but jellyfin stutters like crazy where plex works correctly. Only downside I've found so far
Jellyfin is lacking in quite a few areas still, including device support.
At this point its more suitable for your own household + you outside your home.
Good deal ;)
So why do we need this when we have kodi?
Kodi is a media player on a local device. Plex allows you to create a media server on a spare desktop, dedicated NAS or even virtual server to stream content to multiple people.
For example, you can setup a 20TB NAS unit with tons of your favourite 4K wedding videos and have your friends and family log in to stream them on any device from computers, game consoles, smartphones, tablets etc.
It's a godsend for data hoarders and media collectors.
Kodi does much the same thing with the media server, what it lacks is WAN streaming and transcoding.
So… it doesn't then…
Good in theory but transcoding of 4k media is a complete mess for anything but the most powerful CPU/GPU, which most people dont run on a home server.
I've got a 3770k and it doesn't have trouble. Probably might struggle if I had 3 or 4 going at once, but one maybe two it's fine. I wouldn't really call that the peak of computing power any more.
If someone was building a fairly basic server now it wouldn't cost the moon to build one with 4k transcoding support.
@Binchicken22: i7-3770K is ivy bridge yeah? i7 is probably more powerful than most people have on a file servers, but it still doesnt support hardware accelerated encoding/decoding of HEVC files.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video
For the majority of people their file server or NAS isnt going to be able to transcode 4k files to tablets and phones.
@Binchicken22: 3770k doesn't have any hardware HEVC support and not suitable at all for 4K. Sorry, need to upgrade your CPU for that. 6th gen (Skylake) is the first generation of iGPU to support HEVC.
That's only if it needs to actually transcode though. If the receiving device natively supports the 4k encoded stream then there shouldn't be an issue, but I guess if you're sharing videos out to family and friends on a wide range of devices you probably will hit that hurdle. Even if I had any 4K capable devices in my home I probably wouldn't use 4K videos on Plex, I'm using an old written off PC as my server which definitely wouldn't cope, lol. For 1080p though it's perfectly fine :)
Not quite. A $60 GT 710 low profile fanless card can do it just fine. Slots into HP Microserver and chugging away perfect. You can even get a $130 GT1030 if you wanted more headroom and future proofing. Hardly breaking the bank.
Even with hardware accelerated transcoding, the main issue with transcoding 4K content (as a lot of commercial 4K content is also HDR) is that Plex doesn’t support tone mapping, so HDR content looks washed out. At the moment I resort to having 1080p SDR alongside my 4K HDR content for that reason.
You dont, kodi on a local device such as cheap amlogic box is far better than plex at watching network media at home.
Trying to wrap my head around the idea. Are people just paying for the service to stream their own media internally?
Thought the premium would give me their content as well (ala Netflix style) + access to US TV stations, but doesn't look like it?
Plex media server is completely free to setup and use. Plex Pass is the premium model that adds some extra features. For the average person, including me, it's not required. You can stick to the free normal version forever. It has nothing to do with obtaining media, only curating your own collection to make available to stream from anywhere on any device by any one you give access to. Give it a go for free.
Thanks Hybroid.. wanted to confirm if I was able to obtain media with the premium pass. Will give the free one a try!
Yep, I was using the free version of plex for years but ended up buying premium just to support them.
Yeah that's why I bought it - to support a good product, even if I don't ever use the extra stuff.
Same here. Have been using it almost daily for years now for free. I've set up my partner as a home user so she can watch her stuff without affecting my profile, and look forward to syncing stuff to my iPad to watch on the plane once we can travel again, but I more bought the lifetime pass to support them rather than for the extra features.
The free tier can't even stream media to a phone or tablet in your own house.
You can with a modified apk, web browser or kodi plugin.
@samfisher5986: Wouldnt you have to manually update the modified APK every time there is a software update? doesnt seem very family friendly.
Can just use jellyfin and its free and works well, on devices, web browser or kodi.
@noise36: No you don't unless there is a particular update you want.
Yes Jellyfin is great as long as it has device support for what you want.
True, but there's still two benefits from the free tier.
1) Can Chromecast without restriction
2) Can use via browser without restriction
You don't need Plex Pass for that. Just pay $5 (or something similar) to unlock the feature on the Plex app.
@Pandaroo: So if you have 2 phones and 2 tablets thats $20+ , adds up when there are free alternatives.
@noise36: You still don't need Plex Pass for the feature like you suggest. And it's only a 1 time payment (per Google account at least), you don't need to pay for every device.
You're basically telling people they need to buy a Plex Pass to stream to a phone, which you don't need.
@Pandaroo: You have to pay to use the app! I didnt actually mean you required plex pass was just saying its not in the "free tier" due to needing to purchase the app.
Also why would I want to share the same google account different peoples devices.
sorry for the ignorant question, but is the media streamed using your internet from your NAS? If so, if you have slow upload speed this is not going to work then? Or is it hosted on Plex's serveR?
That is correct if you're planning on viewing your content outside of the network, or offering your Plex media to someone else. But for streaming within your LAN your upload/download speeds mean nothing.
Got videostream, would plex be a lot better?
yes
Why?
I'd advise anyone considering purchasing this to compare Jellyfin & Emby to plex, and see if it fits your needs.
Plex has been focusing most of their efforts & money in dead ends, and so has gotten pretty stagnant, while Jellyfin/Emby have been growing at a pretty insane rate lately. If nothing changes, they'll likely be feature identical (Well the useful features people care about anyway) and ready to be a decent threat in a year or so imo. (They're definitely very usable now, Plex just works & looks better at the moment.)
Last time I checked, it was mostly the UI/layout & Apps that needed more work - That's something Plex has gotten pretty well.
For me it's the ubiquity of Plex. Can download it on my smart TV, Sony Blu Ray player, PS4, Xbox. It's been awhile since I checked but not sure what platforms the clients for emby & jellyfin are on?
Plex is a lot more polished and it’s free for what most people want. The Plex pass has some little goodies here and there but unless you want to watch live TV, I personally don’t think it’s worth it.
Not sure what currency conversion you’re using, but $99.99US is currently $156.16AU