Plex Lifetime

Can someone please tell me the features of a paid subscription or “Lifetime” compared to free ?
I dont pay but everytime I read about the features I realise I dont or wouldnt actually use that.
What am I missing ??

Thanks

In reality almost nothing. For most people, including me, the extra "features unlocked by a PlexPass are almost worthless. The only, for me, important reason to get PlexPass, lifetime or monthly or yearly is to support Plex. All the other reasons are just so much fluff.

Of course some “features” are unlocked by a PlexPass but I need or want none of those. If you do want one or some of the PlexPass “features” then that is a good reason to pay for it. But, for most folks, the only reason to get a PlexPass is support of Plex’s development and the developers.

I bought a Lifetime PlexPass to support Plex and for no other reason.

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The offline downloads are worth the Plex Pass alone for me.

For what? I have never used them and I very much doubt if I ever will. I see no value in that. But, I guess, others do see value.

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I mean this thread probably should have ended with @beckfield reply.

Bottom line is read the link and decide if anything will add enough value for you personally.

For me personally there were at least 2 reasons I bought my Plex Pass many years ago.
Since then there have been 2 or 3 more reasons that I would have bought a Plex Pass had I not already…and absolutely none of those reasons were offline downloads.

The bottom line is there is only one person who can decide if a Plex Pass is worth it and that’s the person who’s thinking about buying it.

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Plex pass is absolutely worth it if you need Live TV & DVR capability. Also, if you’re a tech wizard and love to tinker/have the latest builds sooner.

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Thank you for your help

I love how you singled me out for my opinion like that was wrong. Then gave your opinions. All I have to say is, I bought my Plex Pass for multiple reasons and none were for any of the reasons Hitsville listed. :laughing:

“and absolutely none of those reasons were offline downloads.”

so unnecessary. :rofl:

I don’t think he meant any snark or offense, he was just stating that some features are more critical for some people, and other features are more critical for others.

The feature matrix outlines the plex pass specific features, and has already been mentioned, every user must decide for themselves when or why they choose to support plex with plex pass.

They definitely did, but it’s OK because it gave me a good laugh. :grin:

There was no snark intended at all and Im sorry if you took it that way. I was simply trying to point out that what someone finds a valuable Plexpass feature others will not. It was obviously a clearly failed attempt at humour at 2AM.

A valid point other than i didn’t specify/list a single feature that i do use.
Its all cool cos that gave me a laugh myself.

Outside of the details mentioned in the article, I’ll mention how specific features are useful to me.

I run Plex on a Synology NAS, so the hardware accelerated streaming included with Plex Pass helps make up for the weaker CPU when that’s needed. Particularly useful for my anime ASS\SSA subs. I didn’t see the hardware transcoding function listed in that article as a paid feature.

When I travel, I like to have the mobile apps on my tablets with full access to my server as well as offline downloads so a Plex Pass opens that up for me.

“Skip Intro” is one of my favorite QoL features so almost worth the lifetime pass alone!

Paying for a product also generally means, beyond supporting the development and continued existence of the software product, that they shouldn’t be leveraging my personal data or serving me ads.

offline downloads is/was handy for travelling (when you are off-line etc or bandwidth is limited).

That explains why I have never used that feature. I don’t travel anymore, not for over twelve years, except for quite rare occasions. On those rare occasions or when I get forced, kicking and screaming, to spend time in a hospital for one or another of my health problems. When something like above happens I simply copy whatever media I want to a portable drive or three. Of course (or maybe not of course) in my case I usually just take my audiobook library as watching on a small screen gives me headaches and/or cause fatigue but listening, even by headphones, does not cause me any problems.
Note:I do not use any media manager when in the hospital or even traveling. I simply have copies of what I want and listen on my phone or an mp3 player.

Any media manager seems to me to be overhead I don’t need or want in my hospital bed.

I also NEVER share my media server so there is no way to connect remotely to my server.

But I guess others may want/need more. You whipper-snappers might want/need more but us old decrepit people have a real need for simplistic solutions. But I digress, for quite a while.

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Not all of us are young whipper-snappers :slight_smile:

The tablet experience using a media manager is very spouse friendly. If my wife wants to watch a show in a room with no TV, she can just grab the tablet and stream it via Plex the same as on the Roku. If she wants shows offline for a trip, she goes to the same spot and just marks it for download and it even keeps track of which episode she’s on when she gets back to the Roku once it’s sync’d back up. The media “experience” is consistent. I’m very aware of spouse friendly tech setups. :slight_smile:

Yes, I do too. But my remote users can’t do that (at least not for my Plex media).

…haven’t been that for a while either!

It isn’t why I bought my pass, but it’s why I probably would now. It comes in handy having things downloaded when you exercise, mow your lawn, etc. I like that I can download an artist shuffle and things like that, then go for a run.

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