I learned about Web Shows on Plex this morning, took one look under “All Shows” to see what all was available… and then immediately disabled it entirely. I use Plex to host MY local content. I don’t need nor use Online Media Sources. Not News. Not Podcasts. Not Web Shows. It’s a waste of developer m…

[image] Dan_Longman: Other more robust options to watch internet content. What “More robust” option do you use to watch your internet content from a central location?

I only watch Internet Content from a few providers and they all offer their own apps that are absolutely fine and more feature rich then this option, (for example Giant Bomb content, TwiT content)I don’t need to centrally watch all these. from once place.

My overall feeling on this is “meh”. As it stands currently I won’t be using this feature as it doesn’t really offer any content I’m interested in. Similarly I don’t use Podcasts (although I would like to) because it’s lacking basic features. I don’t use News (although I would like to) because it n…

I wont be surprised if within the next 3 years Plex completely removes user generated and privately hosted libraries, replacing it with paid-for online media libraries.

This is the darkest future :frowning_face:

Ironically, this thread… [image] Web Show Suggestions Online Media Sources We’d like to get your suggestions on what content you would like to see added to Web Shows. Keep in mind, all the content in Web Shows is officially licensed with partnership agreements, so we can’t…

[image] m4tty_j: If I can pull in videos from my youtube subscriptions, and load those from plex rather than jumping between apps, great. That used to be a thing. PlexIt. Very early on, worked really well.

Notice you can’t cast these (all I tried failed at least). This completely cripples the feature for me.

Any user who signs up not even knowing what Plex really is thinking it is like Netflix/Amazon. Someone who wants News,Podcasts or the new web shows. I agree that I think it devalues the service but the option to turn it off is at least available (it was not when News first launched…). I hope Plex do…

So if I understand this correctly. This is being removed: "This notion of needing to run a server at home to access media from the Internet just doesn’t make a lot of sense, which is one of the reasons [we’re retiring them]" And it gets replaced with, literally the same thing (local server used to…

Web Shows, yea or nay?

Online Media Sources

harroguk October 3, 2018, 8:13pm 44

Ironically, this thread…

…Is finding me new YouTube channels to subscribe to that I wont be able to watch in Plex

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Web Shows, yea or nay?

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