I agree, similar titles is always useful to have! But having it limited to Plex content is a little, underwhelming and not useful at all 
I feel like this is probably not going to happen. It was possible with pluggins in the past, but honestly I’m okay with not having that, I just want to be able to login to my streaming services so it can update my watch history instead of me having to do it manually, or show me that I’ve actually purchased this title already in Vudu or Amazon instead of just telling me it’s available to buy from both.
Hopefully this ability will come eventually. THEN this Watchlist will be awesome.
Add the ability to mux this with a library & it’ll be perfect, but I don’t see that happening sadly. I’d love to be able to add the Anime shows that I watch streaming to my Anime Library, & the Live action shows I watch streaming to my Regular TV Shows library, & the Toon shows the kids watch on whatever network to the Toon library, then they can be browsed as though it was all just one big happy list of all the shows we want to watch. But as Plex is all about the idea that they believe everyone should only need to have a single TV library & a single Movie library for everything I accept that it’ll never happen, lol
I mean I agree with this only because it’s a Beta feature. I don’t think everyone should be made to use a Beta thing… Beta is for the Beta Testers to test before it becomes fully implemented. As far as them using your data… So long as that data is only used anonymously… you’re just going to have to accept that that’s the way the world is… You get free software from someone who has to develop it, TNSTAAFL… What you pay is the data they get from you. So long as it’s anonymous there’s no privacy issues, & you’re going to find little to no ground to stand on for this one.
For me PBS is there, maybe it’s your location settings or your local market?
So does Google TV, BUT not completely for either. You can’t have it search for shows on your Plex server & show them alongside shows from the streaming services… So it’s not the same… Plus the implementation & interface is much better than the Apple one (though I haven’t seen it in a couple years so it could be better)
It works great on the Chromecast with Google TV from my experience
Or if the account watchlist had a way to login to your services… It would be able to do that… automatically… as well as automatically update play history instead of having to manually mark as played… 2 for 1…
But since it opens the app & you set the streaming partners for each user/home user just don’t select the service for the guest account. If they click the link it’ll take them to their app, which, if not logged in, will just ask them to sign up.
So maybe if you had the ability to login to your account on the streaming services you could have it bind to a user account on those services… then it could only show what those accounts have access to… So a kids or teen profile wouldn’t show things that aren’t available on those profiles… As it stands the recommendations SHOULD be showing recommendations based on the item being shown… which in general should be similar in target audience… & if they are able to watch it on those streaming services then they can see it on those streaming services & the point is lost anyway…
You DO have the option to select as preferred streaming providers “Netflix Kids” instead of “Netflix” maybe, at the very least, they could make it so that if that is selected it completely hides all results from Netflix that aren’t on the Kid’s profiles? It may already work this way, I dunno, but if not… It should
So I have an Idea… Hear me out… What if you gave users the ability to… I know this is gonna sound crazy, but LOGIN to their streaming services… Not to watch it within the Plex app, having it jump to the app I think is better personally, but to give users the ability to see titles they have purchased already on services like Vudu & Amazon, to see content that’s available through a channel package they have listed as being ON that service… Maybe the ability to bind a kid’s user to the Kid’s profile of the service & then only show things that that restriction level is able to see, I know, this part may be a bit more work to implement… & it’d also make it so the Watched status could be updated without us having to select it & Mark as Played
I know, I know, I’m a dreamer… But, I think… I’m not the only one…
Nope, honestly does nothing for me.
Theyve already had inappropriate content on managed profiles with content restrictions, so the only option that makes Plex usable is to have the option to disable it entirely.
Otherwise it needs to be checked every update, client or server, which isn’t realistic or practical. Other media server solutions become the only option.
That’s funny. I could have sworn that my Plex Pass wasn’t free.
I guess that I should call up my credit card company and reverse the charge. I’d hate to pay for something that gave me absolutely no benefit in return for my money.
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It is very hit and miss. I found New Zealand Today but not 7 Days or several other kiwi shows I looked for. So, not even consistent with who finds what.
Thanks.
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If I connect my Android tablet to VPN then it work.
Not the same thing at all. The Plex Pass pays for EXTRA features that the free account does NOT have. If you don’t want THOSE features you don’t pay for the Plex Pass.
None of the Plex Pass features have changed with this. You still get the same extra features with the Plex Pass. If you consider those features nothing then you shouldn’t have got the Plex Pass to begin with. Nobody is stopping you from canceling it, but don’t expect a refund for all the time that you’ve ALREADY used it
But without paying you still get the Plex app will most of the features, just missing some that you pay for if you want to use on almost every other service as well… Which is free… & has to be maintained… If you really DON’T want these features you can just not update & use an older version of Plex. You aren’t going to get new features, but you can still use a 2 year old version of the plex server & it’ll work. Because you don’t want to support the people developing it, you won’t get the results of their development anymore… Sounds reasonable to me
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How do I make this go away? I preferred Plex the way it was before. I like an empty home screen that’s not going to distract me when I log in and already know what I’m looking for.
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This is a great feature. Would be interesting, but hard to accomplish, to sync the watched content.
One question, when I’m using the web app and when I select a episode it direct me for the page of the service, is there anyway the WebOS app in the LG TV do the same? Open the app related to the content?
The JustWatch app does that on the WebOS
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It should always be optional, no customer should have a massive dil do stuck down their throat till they gag.
As for data, first they need to get consent under GDPR or else face a risk of a fine of up to 9% of their worldwide turnover, it has to be explicit consent, cannot be implied nor forced through contract.
As for collected anonymously, you have obviously not read my other posts.
First of all it is not anonymous because it is combined with hundreds of other sources including voters roll, credit record, health data, company records, land records and even your vaccination data, the latter tells them how compliant you are, were you an early adopter etc.
The whole value of the data is that they are sharing YOUR data, what you watch, when you watch it, where you pause, what is in your library, how many times you watch the Godfather and a whole lot more.
The whole reason they do not give you the choice is so that they can grab some data and apoligise later.
I do not know what nonsense TNSTAAFL is and I am not even going to waste my time looking up stupid acronyms, I did not agree to trade my data, had I been offered the choice I would have declined.
There is plenty of ground, why on earth do you think you see all those cookie consent banners.
That being said I think most people will just dump Plex, the poor response shows that they can’t be trusted and even if they said there was an option to remove it I would not believe them until I had done exhuastive testing over a long period of time.
If Plex have sold their soul I know some of the developers will fork Plex and roll back to a time when it was simple and just worked. If they don’t then there are other platforms, they will gain users and development requests. It will not be long before Plex becomes another Lotus 123 or MySpace.
If Plex do not respect their users they can expect nothing less.
The time since Plex was based in open source is so far back, that isn’t possible/realistic. Jellyfin would be the open source option, Emby for a closed source, company supported model (Akin to Plex, Jellyfin is the fork of Emby’s last open source release).
Just mentioning for clarity / management of expectations.
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Same issue - I can’t link to most Discover streaming service content from my Samsung smart TV. Trailers work, but not tv shows nor movies. I receive a notice that linking content within another app is currently unavailable - disappointing.
Seven months ago it was “Choose your own adventure.” Today it’s “This new feature is going to be in your way and you can’t do anything about it.”
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I think It could be useful that series from other apps that I mark as watched It appear in the continue watching hub.
For example I mark as watched first episode of better call Saúl from Netflix, automatically appear in continue watching after i marked it as watched.
I don’t know if is possible
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I would think it should definitely be possible to stick it in the Continue Watching hub. The trick would be keeping the watch status up to date. They would almost need to present a dialog box that gets in your face upon returning to Plex and asks if you watched that episode. If you click yes then it marks it as watched and if no it leaves it as is in the Continue Watching hub.
Errr, no. It’s 2022, we don’t need to be manually clicking on anymore additional pop up’s or windows or clicks than we need to in Plex. Either Plex does it right or don’t do it at all cuz this isn’t the Plex experience I signed up for. Do you think that’s feasible for senior citizens and for kids to operate on their accounts? Plex keeps pushing this narrative that their apps are EASY. They are not.
They really should have thought these problems out first before inconveniencing their entire customer base and if business talks amongst Roku and other companies were going to be a hassle, again, they should have accounted for who wouldn’t have a great experience if this went forward.
It’s completely stupid. I’m sorry that Im not jumping for joy like others but it’s quite clear that this beta is nothing more than a haphazard idea that was rushed, why? Who the hell knows at this point. Why NOW? why April to launch this? Why couldn’t this have been a Christmas holiday present or something later down the pipeline? This wasn’t VITAL to everyone as a whole user base. We need the audio for ATSC 3.0 to work on the streams. We need bugs fixed. We needed improvements elsewhere.
Seriously thinking of buying an AppleTV just so I can have Channels for my DVR needs after this nonsense.
no other providers are contacted to live-check their catalogs.
Well. Maybe no “live-check”, but the database needs to be some where. So we can likely conclude that Plex has a database of all movies and shows, and at what Streaming service they are available.
Given they also sit on at least SourceIP for every request to this database. They can absolutely deduct what media you like to consume, even without you willingly using the service. And, lets be honest here, this data is a goldmine, they will sell this data back to at least the streaming services whos content shows up in searches.
- by your own Plex client against local/shared libraries of yours (given Plex doesn’t know what’s on your server)
Using Plexes indexers will result in Plex knowing exactly what content you have on your server, it is easy to extrapolate from at least source IP and the logged in users source IP.
- against a reference database what’s available on certain platforms (again… no individual requests through your user directly to those providers)
Maybe not to the providers them self’s, but defenetly to Plex which will now have a database of Source IPs and their searches available. And anyone with that data would sell it, I have no doubt in my mind that Plex will to. At the very least, pay for the content databases from the providers by sending them aggregated stats of searches.
The problem here is that, as a Plex Media Server admin, You can choose to index your library, this of course compromise your IP, but it is an active choice. This Discover crap attaches to every Users “personal”-app and bypasses the PMS and its settings and database, resulting in THAT app exposes its SourceIP to Plex together with searches for content. This exposes the users in a way I don’t think they expected, that what they search for, thinking they are searching the PMS, that data, now belongs to Plex.
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Will these features work in Plex Media Player? or only the web app?
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