Hi there.
I’ve been using Plex for years at this point and I wanted to thank the team for all your hard work. I have some questions I was hoping you’d answer on some features, quality of life upgrades as well as moving forward.
- Watch Together: Loved this feature when it was introduced but actually used it to sync viewing between different AppleTVs in my own home. When my wife wants to finish watching in bed but I wanted to stay up, we turned on watch together so the playback would be in sync. If watch together isn’t coming back, is some kind of playback sync possible?
- Sub-profiles: I have kids that I don’t want to have to create their own profiles for, and I have content I don’t want my kids seeing on my account. Are there any plans on creating some way of having one main account, creating individual profiles under that account, and then be able to pin lock access to some accounts and content lock other profiles?
- Media Editions: I often have various editions of the same movie, i.e. director’s cuts, theatrical, regional variants, etc. I’ll rename the files and sometimes the edition shows up and sometimes it doesn’t. The most annoying part is when I go to play the file, I select play version, and it doesn’t list the edition edits, it simply provides the resolution. Is there not a way to make different editions more user friendly and can we make it the default to ask which edition we want to play?
- TV Movies: This has always frustrated me. Sometimes tv movies can be put in the movies library, sometimes they have to be in the tv shows library. Can you clarify best practices for tv movies? Also, is there a way to link TV Shows and Movies together, for instance if I select Firefly, I should see Serenity in my Movies as an example of related media?
- Dolby Atmos and HDR on AppleTV: Can you explain why Dolby Atmos isn’t available on AppleTV. I also have issues with HDR content, usually Dolby Vision, where the red levels are blown out and the picture is super saturated.
- Multiple filter search: Are there any plans to introduce multi point filtering when searching the Plex library? Right now if I filter by year, I can’t filter by genre or by resolution on the AppleTV.
- YouTube Library: In order to avoid the insane number of YouTube ads I see, I have started downloading YouTube videos for offline viewing automatically. The problem is, they don’t really fit into Movies or TV Shows. Are there plans to expand into this type of content?
- Cast profiles: So there seems to be two different systems going on when it comes to the profile pages of cast members. For instance, if I’m in my movies library, and I select an actor, it takes me to a list of all their movies in my library but not tv shows and vice versa. However, if I’m in the search or the discovery tab, it takes me to their profile where it gives me their bio and full filmography. Are there any plans to sync these two worlds together or have a settings option to let one choose which they’d rather see?
I hope you can answer as many as you can and I look forward to your responses. Thank you again.
Fireside Notes: Thank you for the list of questions. Many of these have been answered or addressed in some way. Please see:
- Watch Together AMA answer
- Profiles - we support Parental Controls on managed accounts currently and the ability to add PIN codes to managed accounts as well. If this isn’t directly answering the question here please feel free to clarify as a Feature Suggestion
- Media Editions - thanks for the feedback here - not much else to say at the moment other than passing this feedback along
- TV Movies - yeah a long time frustration ideally we would support a mixed library type but it isn’t work that is currently happening
- Dolby Atmos AMA answer
Fireside Awesome Question! Answer Post
YouTube Library: In order to avoid the insane number of YouTube ads I see, I have started downloading YouTube videos for offline viewing automatically. The problem is, they don’t really fit into Movies or TV Shows. Are there plans to expand into this type of content?
Fireside Awesome Question! Answer Post
Cast profiles: So there seems to be two different systems going on when it comes to the profile pages of cast members. … Are there any plans to sync these two worlds together or have a settings option to let one choose which they’d rather see?
