I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change takes effect on July 1, 2026 and the price will go from the current $250 to $750.
Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.
If you've been thinking about getting the Lifetime Pass, probably a good idea to do it soon... ;-)
Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-
Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 pm
I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change takes effect on July 1, 2026 and the price will go from the current $250 to $750.
Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.
If you've been thinking about getting the Lifetime Pass, probably a good idea to do it soon... ;-)
I heard about that. $750 seems pretty steep.. I bought a lifetime
Plex Pass for about $80 6 years ago, and I'm glad I did.
I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an
upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change
takes effect on July 1, 2026 and the price will go from the current
$250 to $750.
Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members
are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not
be changing.
If you've been thinking about getting the Lifetime Pass, probably
a good idea to do it soon... ;-)
I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed for me.
I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed for me.
On 19 May 2026, Gamgee said the following...
I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed
for me.
interesting. is there just a setting somewhere not to try
transcoding? do you have problems with it ever?
i keep putting this off because most of the articles about home
streaming setups instantly get into GPU stuff.. which i normally
wouldn't mind but everything is so overpriced :/
I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change takes effect on July 1, 2026 and the price will go from the current $250 to $750.
Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.
Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-
Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Tue May 19 2026 08:28 pm
I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed for me.
I used to think nothing I had needed transcoding, but I realized it was still transcoding some files. If Plex detects a low-bandwidth
connection, even in your own network (perhaps over wifi if it's not getting a great connection), Plex could start to transcode to save bandwidth.
One of the other Plex Pass features is being able to detect & skip
intros for TV shows, which I find handy. Also, if you have a TV tuner, you can use Plex as a DVR to record shows with Plex Pass - I use that
to record Jeopardy & a couple other things.
Denn wrote to Gamgee <=-
Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 pm
I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change takes effect on July 1, 2026 and the price will go from the current $250 to $750.
Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.
Plex free version does everything I want.
One of the other Plex Pass features is being able to detect & skip intros for TV shows...
 Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
 By: fusion to Gamgee on Tue May 19 2026 11:02 pm
On 19 May 2026, Gamgee said the following...
 Ga> I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need
 Ga> transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about
 Ga> accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed
 Ga> for me.
interesting. is there just a setting somewhere not to try
transcoding? do you have problems with it ever?
yes you can turn off transcoding.
with the plex pass you can have your friends connect to you.
without it, you cant. you can't have any remote connections.
like before i had plex at home and plex on the server and i could watch
it off both. and so could my friends.
i keep putting this off because most of the articles about home
streaming setups instantly get into GPU stuff.. which i normally
wouldn't mind but everything is so overpriced :/
just try emby. it has some nice plugins too.
something screwed up when i first installed it and it wasn't importing
from some directories but now it works.
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I used to think nothing I had needed transcoding, but I realized it was
still transcoding some files. If Plex detects a low-bandwidth
connection, even in your own network (perhaps over wifi if it's not
getting a great connection), Plex could start to transcode to save
bandwidth.
Understood, but my Plex is wired ethernet connected and haven't ever had issues with that.
One of the other Plex Pass features is being able to detect & skip intros
for TV shows...
Does it know the difference between opening credits and a prologue scene?
I migrated to Jellyfin! The stupid price politics of Plex, and the new app, not encourage me to continue with Plex.
Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-
Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Wed May 20 2026 08:42 am
I used to think nothing I had needed transcoding, but I realized it was
still transcoding some files. If Plex detects a low-bandwidth
connection, even in your own network (perhaps over wifi if it's not
getting a great connection), Plex could start to transcode to save
bandwidth.
Understood, but my Plex is wired ethernet connected and haven't ever had issues with that.
Both your Plex server and your TV (or other devices you watch Plex
with)?
I migrated to Jellyfin! The stupid price politics of Plex, and the
new app, not encourage me to continue with Plex.
Mauro - SYSOp - BBS Telesc.net.br
Both your Plex server and your TV (or other devices you watch Plex with)?
Yes, the Plex server and the Roku device connected to the TV (with HDMI) are connected with wired ethernet.
fusion wrote to Gamgee <=-
i keep putting this off because most of the articles about home
streaming setups instantly get into GPU stuff.. which i normally
wouldn't mind but everything is so overpriced :/
Nightfox wrote to Mauro <=-
I'm used to the new app now, though I'm disappointed that they removed
the Watch Together feature (at least for the Roku app).
 Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
 By: Mauro to MRO on Wed May 20 2026 10:59 am
I migrated to Jellyfin! The stupid price politics of Plex, and the
new app, not encourage me to continue with Plex.
Mauro - SYSOp - BBS Telesc.net.br
yeah i tried jellyfin but i didnt like it so i'm using emby.
plex is a great product.
i probably spend more at the gas station than a lifetime sub.
i'm cheap.
it's more like i dont trust them.
i think they are going to cut and run in a few years.
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[...] Plex Media Server scans the video files to
look for the intro - I think it looks for video that repeats in every file and marks that as the intro to skip. It also recognizes credits at the
end of a TV show and lets you skip those.
For movies, it can optionally detect credits.
For movies, it can optionally detect credits.
I'm new to the GPU thing, wondering myself about how GPU usage works.
If I use my GPU for an LLM like Olama, can it display graphics as well?
I have a low-ish end card and onboard graphics. The only reason I need
the graphics card is for one game.
For movies, it can optionally detect credits.
Some films have surprise film segments after the credits.
For movies, it can optionally detect credits.
How does it handle in-credit/post-credit scenes?
fusion wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
you have the actual 2d/3d rendering cores.. you could think of it a bit like floating point processors for other types of math. that just so happen to be able to also instantly copy the result to the screen.
instead your favorite LLM program reads the result and decodes it.
then you have one that does video encoding and decoding .. and these
ones are specific ..
i probably shouldn't have been concerned cause it looks like a P400
(~GTX 1050) does 8x1080p or 4x4k just fine and those are $30-40 on
eBay..
the only thing it sounds like you might want to watch for is if you
want HDR content (needs 10bit), want more 4k streams, or if you want
AV1 support
Some films have surprise film segments after the credits.
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