Yesterday i tested Emby. Emby has evolved alot. Here are some features Emby has that Plex needs in there DVR/Live TV solution. In the plex programguide how come you cant choose channel logos instead of cropped pictures of the shows running? I know this question has been asked alot. But why can’t we have a grid view of program guide? Emby has it. I know there is a ROVI lawsuit but Emby has managed to implement it without problems.
can’t argue with you on this. this would be a really nice addition 
The Live TV transcoder seems to be MUCH more stable on Emby than on a Plex too. I think their DVR/Live Tv is more stable and feature rich than Plex although the UI doesn’t look as nice as Plex.
What I like on Emby is the M3U Tuner (file or URL) possibility .
A lot of thrid DVB software/server/tuners are then usable.
Tvheadend (without a proxy, just use http://ip:9981/playlist as a Tuner)
VDR (with streamdev plugin, http://ip:3000)
DVBLink
NextPVR (http://ip:8866/channels)
DVBViewer Recording Service
etc.
This could be a between solution or an additional option for tuners.
I would love to see a grid view for the channel guide and the ability to add station logos. Even WMC had this ability with a third party add-on many years back.
Emby allows you to play a show while it’s recording. At least with the Amazon Fire Sticks we have in my home. For instance tonight will be the Cachlorette finale. My wife has to watch it tonight so she can chat about it with her friends tomorrow. It’s a 3 hour finale (what a waste of time!) so she’ll start it an hour or hour and a half after it starts catching up to it by skipping commercials. This is a huge feature that’s missing from Plex though I heard it’s on the roadmap. Until then I’m going to be running Emby and Plex both.
It’ll be important for me too once NFL season kicks off. I like to start a game a bit late and catch up.
Programguide
I fully support the idea of implementing a more usefull programgide, like posted by dvidebaek in August 2017,
Adding a “Gridline guide” will give the right overview, and you do not waste time searching for the right channel
Plex already mentioned they are working on it. It will just take time like everything else. Then it probably will take time to come to each individual client as Plex never seems to have all the apps ready on day one.
@“hackztor@gmail.com” said:
Plex already mentioned they are working on it. It will just take time like everything else. Then it probably will take time to come to each individual client as Plex never seems to have all the apps ready on day one.
It will take time for them
- to realize that there is demand
- to work on it
- to release early
- to react on the response from the community
- to implement those responses
- to fix everything that got broken be implementing the responses
- to finally be done with it on the server
- to roll out on one client
- fix the bugs the introduced on that client
- react on the community asking about other, more popular clients
- roll out on some other clients
- realize that some vital clients have been forgotten
- sit out the ■■■■ storm from the community
- finally realize that some clients got forgotten
- roll out on those
- fix everything that got broken be implementing the clients
- react on the community telling them what bug-fixes have been forgotten
- and at some point in time finally be done with it throughout the whole ecosystem
Given my experiences with Plex lately I’d say … maybe still this decade.
