Too late for Christmas.
Maybe Valentine’s Day. 
…or St. Patrick’s Day, since @elan mentioned getting drunk.
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Yeah, that’s a fair assumption; we love standardization, hopefully this time on the right thing.
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Hi Elan,
I’m quite pleased about the basic functionalities of your product. That said, I don’t use the sync anymore as frankly it takes to long and is unreliable. Is something going to change ?
Secondly and more importantly, when will all Plex Media Players have the ability to have a subtitle offset capability ?
Regards,
J
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Well I loaded Emby 4.0 on that system I have, looks interesting…
But I can’t test the Live TV or DVR without a purchase.
I did check first before loading it and it shows a purchase is required for the DVR…
Figured that I would see how the live TV worked then decide on the DVR…
Now i’m trying to decide if I want to spend money to test that feature out.
Anyway…
That’s where I’m at there… and still waiting for Plex to finish their half finished feature.
5 $ for a month to test, less then a tall coffee at starbucks I suppose 
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And they do refunds within a few days if you’re really unsatisfied.
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Thanks
I know it’s just five bucks… I was hoping it was a way to move forward…
Since Plex doesn’t seem to care about finishing anything it starts.
Looks like it was just PR to get new users.
How many feel like being the remote for the DVR function.
Hope you enjoy it. I know I am and I’m finding it far superior to Plex.
The DVR functionality is similar to Plex, with the added benefit that you can grant any user as much or as little control over the DVR function.
$5 for one month test is worth it. If you like it and want premier ask to refund or credit it to the lifetime purchase.
It makes it easy to mix cable, OTA, Premium TV and IPTV as well as even integrate dedicated DVR packages right in via plugins. I’ve got 10 network tuners plus IPTV and it just chugs away.
Thanks… That helps…
I really just want the DVR so everyone can schedule that show they don’t want to miss. watch it and remove it.
How well does their guide work… here its a never ending issue…
Perfectly in all clients.
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You’re in for a treat, that’s exactly what they allow. You can set DVR permissions per user, including deletion.
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Yep, can also set TAGs on channels just like media and then be able to filter out those tags (negative filtering) with it’s parental controls as well to hide certain channels from kids.
This is quite useful besides kid blocking. Say you have a family member who likes QVC, HSN and all the other shopping channels. Just set a tag on those channels “TV-Shopping”. Got channels in Spanish and have family/friends who want them but you yourself don’t? Mark them “TV-Spanish”. Have family members who don’t like sports or want an EPG 1/4 to 1/3 full of sports channels “TV-Sports”.
Then on each person you setup just add a filter to remove those channels they don’t want. Easy and quite useful.
Shopping channels … those channels aren’t in this lineup…
can you set a cleanup to remove any show older then 30 days…
things that got scheduled but never watched etc…
Understood, just saying that specific channels or groups of channels can be filtered out for specific users is all. It’s a nice useful feature. Same with using the sorting field to group like channels (News, Sports, Local, Network, Movies, etc).
How is transcoding working…
CPU wise about the same as Plex performance wise.
Hardware transcoding if you have it is much better on Emby IMHO as it supports more codecs and methods which are exposed. You can even reorder preferences or use multiple GPUs with the right setup.
You can control both the decoding and encoding pipelines via easy config changes.
Wow, 10 tuners. Just out of curiosity… what kind of tuners are they?
Hooked up I have two HDHomeRun Primes (3 each), HDHomeRun Quatro (4 tuners) for a total of 10 network tuners.
I also have a couple of IPTV feeds as well. One has a 4 stream simultaneous limit and the other 5 streams. I also have some hand crafted streams for other stations/networks that I’ve extracted from other sources.
You can also setup your IPTV security camera feeds to the lineup as well via an IPTV M3U you create, which makes them easy to view as well without having to switch to a dedicated app.
You could say I’ve got 20 tuners depending on how you want to count things.
I’ve got a box full of Hauppauge tuners but dislike using internal or USB tuners these days.
Thanks for the thread, was really helpful from me making up my mind. Will now start moving away from Plex, probably over to Emby. Let me share why.
I have read that @elan loves TIDAL suggestions when he’s in his own music library.
He even mentioned it in 2 posts. This was a true eye-opener for me.
I guess if someone wants these kinds of suggestions, based on his own locally stored data, then of course collecting more user data is necessary (hence the change in privacy policy, which was partially taken back).
I guess then it also makes sense to change the user interface, because if you want access to more music, it wouldn’t make sense to sort stuff by where it is stored.
I guess then of course you need to start adding more (online) content sources.
Etc.
It all starts making sense.
So I get it. This is not about Plex having made a mistake in the UI. This is not about having made a mistake with privacy. All of this (only) makes sense if the mission has changed.
And that’s perfectly fine. The world is changing. However that’s not me. I don’t want my listening habits analysed. I don’t want my movie watching habit analysed. I don’t want my usage tracked. I don’t want pseudonymised behavioural data sent to your servers or any other servers to “improve my user experience”.
Also I read @elan comments about “putting ads in front of your own content … would be literally the dumbest thing anyone would ever do”. Well, in the context of moving to an ad-supported model it will eventually make sense. Anybody has/had a slingbox? Anybody remembers WhatsApp 2014 promises after being bought by Facebook?
Don’t get me wrong, I think @elan is really honest and believes what he says. But fast-forwarding a few years, if eventually most channels will be ad-supported, why not all? Why not creating this revenue at least for free users? It will make sense.
I do love where Plex came from. “Plex has a simple yet ambitious mission: to help people easily discover, enjoy, and share all of their media across all of their devices.”
But now Plex starts adding all these online features, requiring online connections even for login, start adding online content, Newscasts, Webshows, Tidal.
Personally I haven’t seen users requesting this change of direction, but I guess the Plex leadership team had these discussions, and there must be opportunities in changing course.
Plex has been brilliant, and it is still a great piece of software. Different from other users in this thread, I don’t regret having bought a lifetime pass. And I don’t regret having recommended and installed it for quite a few friends.
But as I siad, it is now time to start looking for something else, which is closer to my needs.
Thank you Plex team.
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