Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff

Post by jiveturkey » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 4:49 PM UTC

austhrow743 wrote: post #104

mk_stjames wrote: post #77

I used Plex briefly right after it came out from the roots of XBMC. The reason was, at that time, if you wanted to play something off a computer on your TV, better have a long DVI cable and a headphone-to-RCA cable and hookup your laptop and screen mirror, or better set up a PC sitting next to your TV and have a media server running. That option felt cool and useful so I did that, between like 2009 and 2012 ish. Now?…

Never occurred to me that people would use Plex for local media. Afaik its main use is for seedboxes. Torrenting on a server. You set up Plex and Prowlarr, then you have your own streaming service with all of the content on streaming services put together plus everything out on dvd, bluray, etc. I don't think Plex would be getting much financial support from them, not because they're not willing to pay* but because h…

Post by undersuit » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 5:32 AM UTC

bubblethink wrote: post #39

Brajeshwar wrote: post #20

From my nieve point of view, I think, they made a mistake with the $100 lifetime fee (was that about a decade ago!). I paid that and have been using it since, and have never made another payment since.

It's commodity software. It's hard to justify a recurring subscription for something like this. It targets advanced users. If they can set up plex, they can set up alternatives too. And plex does not invest much in improving the core product. I don't remember it as being any better than it was 5-10 years ago. It still has rough edges. Skipping title/end credits is a nice feature though.

Post by hammyhavoc » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 6:16 PM UTC

antisthenes wrote: post #103

Until this news, I honestly thought Plex was an open-source project ran by 1 or 2 people. What's their actual business model to support presumably ~100 person staff? That's not a huge amount of money but not peanuts either.

Post by krisroadruck » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 3:54 PM UTC

freedomben wrote: post #64

krisroadruck wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every time I've asked them about an app for Samsung or LG tvs - the two most popular brands they've pushed back "we're volunteers, we don't use those TVs, it's not on our to-do list but feel free to code it yourself". They aren't open to being paid to develop it either.

Interesting, I have a Samsung TV but I'v never even considered running Jellyfin as a native app. I keep the TV off the internet so it can't be a spy box. The Chromecast with Google TV is so affordable and so great, I just use that everywhere. To be clear I'm not telling you you're wrong for wanting to do it on the TV, that's a personal preference, I'm just sharing how I do it in case it helps.