Terrible Plex app

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This is not an improvement at all. This is just about making money on other devices.

There is no support for

  1. No support for Dolby-Atmos
  2. No support for Dolby THD
  3. No support for DTS
  4. No support for DTS-HD
  5. No support for Dolby Digital
  6. No support for Dolby Digital Plus
  7. No support for buffering
  8. No support for direct play
  9. No support for remote
  10. No support for TV
  11. No support for a decent lay-out
  12. No support for the community who invested a lot of money into their plex eco system
  13. No support for VERY VERY loyal plex users who basically made Plex possible
  14. No support for decent features
  15. Forced useless features like podcast etc

The new plex app is just the plex server app with the download added.

  1. It is not ready at all
  2. It looks ■■■■
  3. It works like horseshit
  4. There is no roadmap because Plex as a company is steerless atm
  5. There is no communication with the loyal community
  6. New tv’s, receivers, soundbars etc all support Dolby Atmos and sound formats, but Plex decided to get rid of it very very NICE company policy. (idiots)
  7. Apps now a days look very aesthetic, BUT Plex decided to go back to 1999, very very good decision.
  8. Basically Plex is ■■■■■■■ it all up because they’re not giving a ■■■■ and they dont have a company vision and strategy, because they are incompetent ppl who lead a company who dont understand how to lead a company like Plex and their loyal community.
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There are many threads on this already.

Some of your assertions are incorrect, e.g.

The backend video engine (mpv) is the same on both Plex Media Player and the desktop player apps so yes there is support for Direct Play (by default). And there is also this: Does the new Plex app support the same codecs as the old one?

The desktop players are not meant to be a complete / HTPC replacement of the Plex Media Player.

You can read more about the roadmap of the desktop players here:

And you can post to these existing threads:

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