Hey guys, I’ve searched and haven’t really found any concrete answers.
I have digital movies from a few different sources; Google Play and UltraViolet, I would love to have these consolidated into one dashboard. I think the new Apple TV does this. Is there anyway to have Plex pull these libraries/channels in?
Netflix, Prime and any other streaming provider would be great too, but I’m not getting greedy.
Netflix and Prime are services subscribed from each respective company. Their players are proprietary.
Plex is a generally free player.
The two business models are not complementary. (Plex vs Google/Amazon)
I wouldn’t count on any traction of this because I doubt either of them would ever be willing to entertain discussions with Plex given their already established markets (they don’t need us).
Sorry /shrug/ 
Thanks, I hate having movies spread over 3-5 different platforms. I hope there’s some cooperation in the near future
The bottom line is they mandate DRM. Plex doesn’t support DRM.
What you might have better luck with is using a client that can have a few different apps loaded and has a general search function. I think the Shield TV has most of this functionality as I’ve search for a movie from the general search and have gotten results back from Netflix, Plex and Amazon.
The problem is that I’d rather watch my own BluRay ripped version vs an online version of a movie and I think the shield preferred the Netflix version first. Maybe there is a setting somewhere for this?
Being that it runs Android and support Google Movies you should be good there as well.
So maybe the Shield TV will due the trick for you now since it supports all 4 apps you mention and does do searches across the different loaded apps.
Do some reading up on it and other devices similar to it to see if any of them do this out of the box. It only makes sense to do it like this. I’m sure this type of “global search” will get better and better as time goes by as well.
Carlo
Plex is for playing content you own. Any money you waste^H^H^H^H^Hthrow at those other services aren’t letting you really “own” those movies, regardless of what terminology they use to mislead you. You are getting a temporary license to view them at the whim of the provider, for as long as they exist or decide to change their rules.
If you want to own content so you can play it on whatever you want, you need to buy a physical disc.
