Plex to offer ad-supported "premium" content very soon...This whole debacle with the new interface FINALLY makes sense now, SIGH

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You must not have read many of my posts all over the forum as my view of the new UI is crystal clear! LOL

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“You sound a lot like me and just horde your old equipment. :slight_smile:”

Nothing quite like the feeling of triumph when an old piece of equipment saves me money/trip to the store and I get to say to the wife, “good thing I didn’t throw that out when you wanted me to, huh?”

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I bet she says the same about her shoe collection as well. “See I told you they would come back in style” LOL

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This is a drag. I really hope an alternative like Emby improves to the point of being what Plex used to be, ie a great local media server/manager. I know a lot of folks are happy w Emby but that hasn’t been my experience even though I really wanted to like it.

My dissatisfaction aside, it seems like a really bad move for Plex to enter this space – there are so many providers already doing what Plex is proposing and consumer fatigue is high with the existing competing services. I get that there’s not much money in being a great local media solution, but I’d be surprised if they succeed at this. What consumer need are they filling that isn’t met 100 times over with Apple, Amazon, Google, Roku, Samsung and others?

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This doesn’t have to be a bust. as long as I can turn off all this “premium” stuff and not have to see it, what’s the big deal.

The real problem is if they are putting all their resources on these efforts that us users don’t care about and starving the core product of engineering support and optimization. If that happens, they are doomed.

Once that starts being clear I have no doubt we’ll see some open source efforts spring up to replace them. That new company probably won’t be able to integrate their code in an Samsung or LG TV, but so what/ Android TV devices are cheap and getting moe and more numerous, and the TV vendors are lousy about updates and patches anyway.

It’ll be easy for a new company to build apps for Android TV and distribute it that way. Heck, Google open sourced the whole SageTV code base they used for the core of the DVR service. You could take that and integrate DVR features pretty quickly.

I hope that won’t be necessary. But having a techie user base means they will build an alternative product if Plex screws it up.

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Complaining about the removal of plugins is not going to help bring it back. There is a feature request for it. Feature Request: Bring Back Plugins Go vote and add your comments there.

Edit - Oops. I meant the UX, not plugins specifically. There is a request to bring back the old UX for Android, [Feature Request] Bring back the old UX to the Android mobile app. The old UI for Roku has already been brought back as Plex Retro. Plex is rethinking the new UX and will be making changes, so further complains aren’t needed at this time. Once the new updates are available with the changes, we will ask for comments then.

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