Video Recordings Now Available!
Plex Pass Session 1 (August 2016)
Plex Pass Session 2 (August 2016)
Plex Pass Session 3 (August 2016)
Something new is in the air, exclusively for Plex Pass subscribers! We invite you to be among the first to participate in our new 60-minute Plex Pass Roundtables–your direct link to some of the folks at the core of Plex! You’ll get the chance to interact live with some of the people behind your favorite media system via video chat, as well as share your own thoughts and ideas. Each roundtable session will be focused on a pre-determined set of topics, with possible demos planned for you to get a first look. Focusing on a specific agenda will let us make the best use of the limited time available in each session.
What’s in store for you?
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Product Feedback: Be part of the face-to-face discussion and funnel insights directly to the development, QA, and support teams—the folks who are making things happen
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Gurus Attending: We will have subject-matter gurus, product managers, developers, designers, and more, giving you the opportunity to hear and be heard by an ever-growing group of Plex experts
Pick the brains of your Plex brethren!
We have 3 roundtables scheduled for the 4th week of August. The dates and times are listed here in the UTC time zone, however the sign up form will automatically adjust them for your time zone.
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Session 1 : Wednesday, August 24th 17:00 – 18:00 UTC
(good for morning & afternoon Americas, evening Europe)
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Session 2 : Thursday, August 25th 00:00 – 01:00 UTC
(good for evening Americas, morning Australia)
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Session 3 : Friday, August 26th 01:00 – 02:00 UTC
(good for evening Americas, morning Australia)
These sessions will cover:
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Quality Assurance Testing: Improving product quality and workflows
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NAS & NVIDIA SHIELD: Running Plex Media Server on non-PC hardware
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Over-the-air: how broadcast, cable and other online services fill the entertainment gap
Your place at the roundtable awaits!
We really want everyone to have a chance to contribute and be heard! As such, will be offering several roundtable sessions to accommodate people living in various time zones. Since space is limited, we want to be fair to everyone interested in attending: if a session exceeds 20 people signing up, we will choose the actual attendees from that pool at random. We look forward to connecting with you in a new way!
Sign-ups are open through Sunday, August 14, end of day UTC
Update!
Sign-ups are now closed. With ~2,800 hits to this thread and 90 actual sign-ups, we are happy to see such interest for these roundtables. This is a big endeavor for us and as such are doing this in stages as we plan to host them every quarter. For our first round we have set a 20 person limit on each of the 3 sessions and will be providing a link of the recording to all Plex Pass subscribers. We’ll be looking at live broadcast and Q&A in the future to allow for more Plex users to attend.
Since we hit the sign-up cap for all of the sessions, we will be randomly selecting 20 attendees for each session. Everyone who signed up will hear from me via email soon.
Got questions? Feel free to post a comment!
Why is Plex focusing on being EVERYWHERE on EVERYTHING when it hasn’t got the basics right with its core set of products (ie ditching PHT when PMP isn’t finished, removing pre v1 PMS downloads when post v1 PMS isn’t stable).
Stop developing new products (like nvidia pms/client, Sonos etc) and get the current portfolio to 100% before starting new projects.
Thanks for the comment, but he meant questions about the Rountables. If you would like to create a regular thread with your question, I can answer you there. Let’s keep this thread about the event.
@reddwarfcrew said:
Why is Plex focusing on being EVERYWHERE on EVERYTHING when it hasn’t got the basics right with its core set of products (ie ditching PHT when PMP isn’t finished, removing pre v1 PMS downloads when post v1 PMS isn’t stable).
Stop developing new products (like nvidia pms/client, Sonos etc) and get the current portfolio to 100% before starting new projects.
It’s a business model.
What you are asking is, for example, a car manufacturer to only produce one type of car but every iteration makes that car better until it’s the best car there is. There would be no trucks or SUV’s or anything else. Everybody would go and buy from another manufacturer as they have more variety.
So it is with Plex. They try to be on everything so that it doesn’t matter what client you have. Otherwise everybody would go elsewhere. It may not be 100% perfect on everything but, in this world, there’s not much that is.
While I agree with MovieFan.Plex that we should stay on topic, I would like to address one point that @reddwarfcrew made with regard to fixing existing features before moving on to new areas. I think the best to answer this question will be the special guests we will have – which will includes folks from product management and quality assurance.
So do I understand this correctly, that only 20 people can participate per session?
@Pukinator said:
So do I understand this correctly, that only 20 people can participate per session?
At this point we are limiting each session to 20 people to give everyone a chance to talk. If you don’t get in, then there will be future opportunities as we are looking to do more in the future. I will do what I can do get the most people in each session as possible, of course. Just the beginning here.
@kinoCharlino said:
At this point we are limiting each session to 20 people to give everyone a chance to talk. If you don’t get in, then there will be future opportunities as we are looking to do more in the future. I will do what I can do get the most people in each session as possible, of course. Just the beginning here.
I think it would be good if you allowed everyone else just to listen.
@MovieFan.Plex said:
Thanks for the comment, but he meant questions about the Rountables. If you would like to create a regular thread with your question, I can answer you there. Let’s keep this thread about the event.
Apologies, I understood it to mean questions could be submitted to be asked at the sessions.
It would be great it these roundtables are recorded for others to view, or transcripts released.
@reddwarfcrew said:
Apologies, I understood it to mean questions could be submitted to be asked at the sessions.
No worries at all! I know that is on the mind of our customers and I have brought it up with our QA guest to cover.
It would be great it these roundtables are recorded for others to view, or transcripts released.
I am looking into this. There are some legal concerns here (particularly the recording part), but I will update if we are able to pull that off.
@Pukinator said:
I think it would be good if you allowed everyone else just to listen.
I would love to be able to have everyone attend who wanted to. Considering this is our first attempt at doing this with customers, my thought on this is that we keep it simple this first go-around and expand on this based on the feedback we receive for the next round. We hope to be able to do this on a quarterly basis to keep the conversation going 
@kinoCharlino said:
I would love to be able to have everyone attend who wanted to. Considering this is our first attempt at doing this with customers, my thought on this is that we keep it simple this first go-around and expand on this based on the feedback we receive for the next round. We hope to be able to do this on a quarterly basis to keep the conversation going
Well I think it’s great that you do these sessions now, to make Plex even greater together!
@Pukinator said:
Well I think it’s great that you do these sessions now, to make Plex even greater together!
Thank you for the kind words. I loved Plex even before I started working here. I haven’t given up on the idea of sharing a recording after the event. I’m looking into this and will post an update here if we are able to pull it off this time around. As for the actual Hangouts session – I do want to keep them to 20 + our special guests and myself, just to make sure they don’t turn out like the The Negotiator. I don’t think Kevin Spacey would be willing to come save me.
i think the main missing feature for plex is handling live tv…
other than that a more advanced subtitle plugin would be welcomed
@kinoCharlino said:
@reddwarfcrew said:
Apologies, I understood it to mean questions could be submitted to be asked at the sessions.
No worries at all! I know that is on the mind of our customers and I have brought it up with our QA guest to cover.
It would be great it these roundtables are recorded for others to view, or transcripts released.
I am looking into this. There are some legal concerns here (particularly the recording part), but I will update if we are able to pull that off.
If you cannot provide listening or recording access then how about a written transcript?
For the legal side a release signed by all the participants should cover you there. Digital signatures have been ruled as legal for things like that. Just require the release be completed before access is granted.
@Elijah_Baley said:
If you cannot provide listening or recording access then how about a written transcript?
For the legal side a release signed by all the participants should cover you there. Digital signatures have been ruled as legal for things like that. Just require the release be completed before access is granted.
Written transcript? I say go big or go home! hehehehe. I would much prefer to offer a video recording and that is what I’m aiming for. Stay tuned.
@kinoCharlino said:
@Elijah_Baley said:
If you cannot provide listening or recording access then how about a written transcript?
For the legal side a release signed by all the participants should cover you there. Digital signatures have been ruled as legal for things like that. Just require the release be completed before access is granted.
Written transcript? I say go big or go home! hehehehe. I would much prefer to offer a video recording and that is what I’m aiming for. Stay tuned.
To be honest I would actually prefer a written transcript to a recording either audio or video. I can read much fasted than any video can progress and all I really care about is the context. I do not much care what anybody looks or sound like.
I do not understand this apparent fascination that most people seem to have with instructional videos and news presented on video. Again I can read very well and I find that video and audio recordings just take too long and convey less information than the written word. Videos are for entertainment not for conveying good information or educating on a subject.
Good news, everyone! Based on your feedback, we are going to be recording the roundtable sessions and make the videos available to all Plex Pass subscribers afterward!
I also updated the post to include Sign-ups are open through Sunday, August 14
Seems like a great idea, looking forward to this.
