“You don’t need a cable subscription…
Our intuitive and customizable program guide supports channels in more than 70 countries,…
We also support many other major networks around the world, like CBC, BBC, ITV, …”
And so the credit card came out.
I don’t see any way to do this? Am I missing something?
I expected a program guide including a channel called BBC. And that some of my money was going to the BBC for this, so I could watch these programmes. I guess your Marketing people are pushing the truth to the edge of the language again.
There is no point watching BBC iPlayer through Plex, I could do that through a Web browser, and a quick search here is full of complaints that the BBC iPlayer addon is broken by a recent update.
Please tell me if I have missed something, or some other reason I should not ask for an immediate refund.
Sorry if I sound disappointed, but I actually love Plex - the core application and database is great. I just don’t understand why you spend so much effort developing features I will never use, and don’t get the basic stuff working.
I want to watch my favourite TV programmes without hassle or bugs, and I would love to be able to do this without an audio delay which is introduced by Bluetooth, and removed by KODI, but which has never been addressed by Plex.
I also want to see evolving recommendations of other programmes I should watch rather than the same list of ‘recent additions’ - even when I have watched them! These are such basic GUI oversights, I despair!
Finally I would love recommendations of new programmes based on series that I have finished - linked to download engine / LiveTV viewing. I am sure that I saw this once (maybe on Kodi.)
I don’t need podcasts, as I have a podcast programme for that.
I don’t need music, as I have a music programme for that.
But I would love a Video media organiser / player that did the basics before it gets carried away with taking over the world.
Get Netflix for that, they provide content, Plex doesn’t.
If you want live TV in Plex, get an OTA antenna if that is available in your area (since you are interested in the BBC I guess it’s Great Britain?).
If you set-up live TV, plex will suggest similar programmes based on what you were watching. But Plex only suggests what it has access to. This is either your own files, or what is broadcasted to you.
So you need to be able to receive it by Digital TV - not much use to me as I an Englishman living overseas. But all content is available over the internet these days. Isn’t that what ‘Web Shows’ are? A redirected stream from a server to the Plex Player window, with a database record of which you have already seen? That is what I would expect, even if Hulu or Netflix is the Video stream engine behind. I personally don’t like the Netflix user interface, and very much like the Plex user interface.
I see, then no live TV for you via Plex I am afraid.
The problem is, the content/broadcast is owned by other companies which are not Plex. So Plex cannot simply just “record” the TV signal and broadcast it to you, this would be copyrgiht infringement or whatever. For the same reason you have to provide the content yourself to Plex so Plex can work with it. Netflix and Hulu pay for the content or produce it themselves, again, Plex doesn’t. Maybe this changes in the future, but no one knows today if this will happen. Until then:
You have to (mostly) provide the content yourself.
I have a Synology server in UK and a TV license, so this part is easy. I would just like the EPG and the history / rating / recommendations wrapper. But seems like that is the kind of thing done only in TRACT.TV and things like SONARR. This just seems to me as such a high value addition to Plex, that I would happily pay for that. Whereas (to my eyes) the extra functionality offered behind the paywall, is largely of no interest to me.
Sorry, I just read that again. So I could install Plex Server on my Synology server and attach a Digital TV box to the server somehow, and it would record to my server, then I download from UK to local and watch here as a Library item…
Or I can download a Torrent where someone else has already done that. Just to be on the right side of legal.
That feels a little like buying a Bus fare, and then having to push the Bus…
Yes, if they have a Plex Pass and a digital tuner (like an HDHomerun).
They would need to invite you to share their setup, but then you could watch live TV through their Plex server. If they recorded shows, you could play them back as well.
Caveats:
Both their and your internet connection will need to be good
Their server needs to be able to cope streaming to you (probably transcoding) whilst doing anything they want to do as well.
their computer will need to be on to cover your time zone and the recording (or they have a decent NAS).
No. You sign this hardware into your own plex account.
Hence why I wrote “host it for you”.
If they have a Plex server and tuner of their own, they can invite you to their Plex Home.
Then you can watch live and schedule your own recordings (if they allow you to).
But of course, joining someone else’s Plex Home is something you should carefully think over. Mainly because it destroys your own home and prevents you from creating a new one.
Access to live TV and DVR is not possible to ‘Friend’ users.
Thanks. This is exactly what I need!