I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change takes effect on July 1, 2026 and
the price will go from the current $250 to $750.

Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.

If you've been thinking about getting the Lifetime Pass, probably a good idea to do it soon... ;-)


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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 pm

I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change takes effect on July 1, 2026 and the price will go from the current $250 to $750.

Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.

If you've been thinking about getting the Lifetime Pass, probably a good idea to do it soon... ;-)

I heard about that. $750 seems pretty steep.. I bought a lifetime Plex Pass for about $80 6 years ago, and I'm glad I did.

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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 pm

I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change takes effect on July 1, 2026 and the price will go from the current $250 to $750.

Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.

If you've been thinking about getting the Lifetime Pass, probably a good idea to do it soon... ;-)

I heard about that. $750 seems pretty steep.. I bought a lifetime
Plex Pass for about $80 6 years ago, and I'm glad I did.

You got a great deal there, for sure.

I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about
accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed for me.

I don't think I'd spend $750 for it in any case. Maybe $250, but....
don't need it.



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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 pm

I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an
upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change
takes effect on July 1, 2026 and the price will go from the current
$250 to $750.

Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members
are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not
be changing.

If you've been thinking about getting the Lifetime Pass, probably
a good idea to do it soon... ;-)

That's probably what this is all about. getting more people to go for
the 249.99 because of the 749.99 price looming.

I dont trust those guys anymore. I expect them to cut more features or pull out eventually. i switched to emby. it was acting weird at first but i have
it how i want it now.

I'm surprised they are pulling this because a lot of people jumped ship with their other changes.


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On 19 May 2026, Gamgee said the following...

I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed for me.

interesting. is there just a setting somewhere not to try transcoding? do you have problems with it ever?

i keep putting this off because most of the articles about home streaming setups instantly get into GPU stuff.. which i normally wouldn't mind but everything is so overpriced :/

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Tue May 19 2026 08:28 pm

I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed for me.

I used to think nothing I had needed transcoding, but I realized it was still transcoding some files. If Plex detects a low-bandwidth connection, even in your own network (perhaps over wifi if it's not getting a great connection), Plex could start to transcode to save bandwidth.

One of the other Plex Pass features is being able to detect & skip intros for TV shows, which I find handy. Also, if you have a TV tuner, you can use Plex as a DVR to record shows with Plex Pass - I use that to record Jeopardy & a couple other things.

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: fusion to Gamgee on Tue May 19 2026 11:02 pm

On 19 May 2026, Gamgee said the following...

I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed
for me.

interesting. is there just a setting somewhere not to try
transcoding? do you have problems with it ever?

yes you can turn off transcoding.

with the plex pass you can have your friends connect to you.
without it, you cant. you can't have any remote connections.

like before i had plex at home and plex on the server and i could watch it
off both. and so could my friends.

i keep putting this off because most of the articles about home
streaming setups instantly get into GPU stuff.. which i normally
wouldn't mind but everything is so overpriced :/

just try emby. it has some nice plugins too.
something screwed up when i first installed it and it wasn't importing from some directories but now it works.


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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 pm

I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change takes effect on July 1, 2026 and the price will go from the current $250 to $750.

Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.

Plex free version does everything I want.

Denn

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Tue May 19 2026 08:28 pm

I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed for me.

I used to think nothing I had needed transcoding, but I realized it was still transcoding some files. If Plex detects a low-bandwidth
connection, even in your own network (perhaps over wifi if it's not getting a great connection), Plex could start to transcode to save bandwidth.

Understood, but my Plex is wired ethernet connected and haven't ever had issues with that.

One of the other Plex Pass features is being able to detect & skip
intros for TV shows, which I find handy. Also, if you have a TV tuner, you can use Plex as a DVR to record shows with Plex Pass - I use that
to record Jeopardy & a couple other things.

I don't even watch any of the free Live TV channels, and don't have a TV tuner. I have regular cable TV service too, with a DVR, so don't need
that function on the Plex. I realize my usage is probably not the
typical setup, but it's all I need it for, and works well for me. :-)



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Denn wrote to Gamgee <=-

Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 pm

I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change takes effect on July 1, 2026 and the price will go from the current $250 to $750.

Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.

Plex free version does everything I want.

Yep, same here. Just wanted to pass on that info for any folks that
might have been thinking about the Lifetime Pass.



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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Nightfox to Gamgee on Tue May 19 2026 20:15:23

One of the other Plex Pass features is being able to detect & skip intros for TV shows...

Does it know the difference between opening credits and a prologue scene?

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: fusion to Gamgee on Tue May 19 2026 11:02 pm

On 19 May 2026, Gamgee said the following...

I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that

need

transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed
for me.

interesting. is there just a setting somewhere not to try
transcoding? do you have problems with it ever?

yes you can turn off transcoding.

with the plex pass you can have your friends connect to you.
without it, you cant. you can't have any remote connections.

like before i had plex at home and plex on the server and i could watch
it off both. and so could my friends.

i keep putting this off because most of the articles about home
streaming setups instantly get into GPU stuff.. which i normally
wouldn't mind but everything is so overpriced :/

just try emby. it has some nice plugins too.
something screwed up when i first installed it and it wasn't importing
from some directories but now it works.

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Wed May 20 2026 08:42 am

I used to think nothing I had needed transcoding, but I realized it was
still transcoding some files. If Plex detects a low-bandwidth
connection, even in your own network (perhaps over wifi if it's not
getting a great connection), Plex could start to transcode to save
bandwidth.

Understood, but my Plex is wired ethernet connected and haven't ever had issues with that.

Both your Plex server and your TV (or other devices you watch Plex with)?

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Mortar to Nightfox on Wed May 20 2026 09:40 am

One of the other Plex Pass features is being able to detect & skip intros
for TV shows...

Does it know the difference between opening credits and a prologue scene?

Yes, sort of. For a TV show, Plex Media Server scans the video files to look for the intro - I think it looks for video that repeats in every file and marks that as the intro to skip. It also recognizes credits at the end of a TV show and lets you skip those.

For movies, it can optionally detect credits.

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Mauro to MRO on Wed May 20 2026 10:59 am

I migrated to Jellyfin! The stupid price politics of Plex, and the new app, not encourage me to continue with Plex.

I'm used to the new app now, though I'm disappointed that they removed the Watch Together feature (at least for the Roku app).

I bought a lifetime Plex Pass membership about 6 years ago, and I'm still happy using Plex for now, so I plan to continue using Plex for now. If they start changing things that I'm not happy with, then I'll consider switching.

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Wed May 20 2026 08:42 am

I used to think nothing I had needed transcoding, but I realized it was
still transcoding some files. If Plex detects a low-bandwidth
connection, even in your own network (perhaps over wifi if it's not
getting a great connection), Plex could start to transcode to save
bandwidth.

Understood, but my Plex is wired ethernet connected and haven't ever had issues with that.

Both your Plex server and your TV (or other devices you watch Plex
with)?

Yes, the Plex server and the Roku device connected to the TV (with HDMI)
are connected with wired ethernet.



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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Mauro to MRO on Wed May 20 2026 10:59 am

I migrated to Jellyfin! The stupid price politics of Plex, and the
new app, not encourage me to continue with Plex.

Mauro - SYSOp - BBS Telesc.net.br

yeah i tried jellyfin but i didnt like it so i'm using emby.

plex is a great product.

i probably spend more at the gas station than a lifetime sub.
i'm cheap.

it's more like i dont trust them.

i think they are going to cut and run in a few years.


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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Wed May 20 2026 02:54 pm

Both your Plex server and your TV (or other devices you watch Plex with)?

Yes, the Plex server and the Roku device connected to the TV (with HDMI) are connected with wired ethernet.

My Plex has been running great just using WiFi, 1st got Plex installed over 10 years ago.
Could've had the subscription for cheap back then.
I hated when the update put the Menu's at the top, Thankfully they changed it back.
I have had all 4 of my TV's running Plex over WiFi at the same time with no problems.

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Jellyfin never was a first option for me, because i used Plex for 3
years. The old interface was fantastic, in Android, browser and had good features. The new app, and prices, created a difficult for homelab users.
No problem in pay Plex, for mantain a project, but Plex actually is a
more one "enshitification" project.


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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Mauro to MRO on Wed May 20 2026 10:59 am

I migrated to Jellyfin! The stupid price politics of Plex, and the
new app, not encourage me to continue with Plex.

Mauro - SYSOp - BBS Telesc.net.br

yeah i tried jellyfin but i didnt like it so i'm using emby.

plex is a great product.

i probably spend more at the gas station than a lifetime sub.
i'm cheap.

it's more like i dont trust them.

i think they are going to cut and run in a few years.

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Hello Nightfox!

** On Wednesday 20.05.26 - 11:21, Nightfox wrote to Mortar:

[...] Plex Media Server scans the video files to
look for the intro - I think it looks for video that repeats in every file and marks that as the intro to skip. It also recognizes credits at the
end of a TV show and lets you skip those.

For movies, it can optionally detect credits.

Some films have surprise film segments after the credits.


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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Nightfox to Mortar on Wed May 20 2026 11:21:45

For movies, it can optionally detect credits.

How does it handle in-credit/post-credit scenes?

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: poindexter FORTRAN to fusion on Thu May 21 2026 08:04:01

I'm new to the GPU thing, wondering myself about how GPU usage works. If I use my GPU for an LLM like Olama, can it display graphics as well? I have a low-ish end card and onboard graphics. The only reason I need the graphics card is for one game.

I'm considering transcoding a ton of video files to an iTunes/iPhone friendly, lower resolution format to save space and wondering about how that works when it's using the GPU.

i think you should not put AI LLM load on your GPU if you want to transcode video at the same time.

I have a N100 intel CPU for media playback and the on-chip GPU is quite capable for such a small CPU. It can transcode most Codecs and does hardly break a sweat for one transcoding stream. It also does not transcode constantly but works on a block, saves it to be streamed next and then works on the next block. at least with Jellyfin.

Not sure if Plex is really worth the money, but i love my Jellyfin server. =)

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On 21 May 2026, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

I'm new to the GPU thing, wondering myself about how GPU usage works.
If I use my GPU for an LLM like Olama, can it display graphics as well?
I have a low-ish end card and onboard graphics. The only reason I need
the graphics card is for one game.

yeah. the gpu is actually several processors. or groups of them on the GPU die i guess. then think of the display part as (in this context) an unrelated place to dump stuff.

you have the actual 2d/3d rendering cores.. you could think of it a bit like floating point processors for other types of math. that just so happen to be able to also instantly copy the result to the screen. instead your favorite LLM program reads the result and decodes it.

then you have one that does video encoding and decoding .. and these ones are specific ..

i probably shouldn't have been concerned cause it looks like a P400 (~GTX 1050) does 8x1080p or 4x4k just fine and those are $30-40 on eBay..

the only thing it sounds like you might want to watch for is if you want HDR content (needs 10bit), want more 4k streams, or if you want AV1 support

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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Ogg to Nightfox on Thu May 21 2026 08:17 am

For movies, it can optionally detect credits.

Some films have surprise film segments after the credits.

That's true.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Mortar to Nightfox on Thu May 21 2026 01:23 pm

For movies, it can optionally detect credits.

How does it handle in-credit/post-credit scenes?

I don't think it does.

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass pr
By: Mindsurfer to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 21 2026 09:07 pm

Not sure if Plex is really worth the money, but i love my Jellyfin server. =)

I use Plex Media Server, and I bought a lifetime Plex Pass for about $80 6+ years ago. I feel like it has been worth it and I've gotten my money's worth with it. Hardware transcoding has helped sometimes (particularly with the Watch Together feature which I've used - but they've since removed that feature), I regularly use the DVR functionality to record some broadcast TV shows, and I like the feature to skip intros when watching TV shows.

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass pr
By: Nightfox to Mindsurfer on Thu May 21 2026 13:07:21

I use Plex Media Server, and I bought a lifetime Plex Pass for about $80 6+ years ago. I feel like it has been worth it and I've gotten my money's worth with it.

I remember the moment i decided against Plex some years ago. I was curious and about to test Plex and the moment i was asked to create an account that was it for me. I'm sure Plex is powerful, but i just did not start with it. And now i permanently live in the Jellyfin universe =)

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass pr
By: Mindsurfer to Nightfox on Thu May 21 2026 11:08 pm

I use Plex Media Server, and I bought a lifetime Plex Pass for about $80
6+ years ago. I feel like it has been worth it and I've gotten my
money's worth with it.

I remember the moment i decided against Plex some years ago. I was curious and about to test Plex and the moment i was asked to create an account that was it for me. I'm sure Plex is powerful, but i just did not start with it. And now i permanently live in the Jellyfin universe =)

I'm curious what you see as a problem with creating an account?

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass pr
By: Nightfox to Mindsurfer on Thu May 21 2026 15:05:18

I remember the moment i decided against Plex some years ago. I was
curious and about to test Plex and the moment i was asked to create an
account that was it for me.

I'm curious what you see as a problem with creating an account?

It just did not feel as i would have full control over who sees my vacation videos. I don't want to sign in somewhere else to watch my own stuff.
if it was just a local account then i misunderstood the concept of having this account. I need to have 100% control over a media server. When i have to be afraid that it might does phone home with usage- and meta-data i do not use it.
Jellyfin is open source, Plex is closed source.

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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Ogg to Nightfox on Thu May 21 2026 08:17 am

Some films have surprise film segments after the credits.

Napolean Dynamite was one of those, I bought the DVD back when it came out, I watched it and didn't feel like turning it off, about 10 minutes of blank screen it came up with the brothers wedding, that was funny as hell.

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass pr
By: Mindsurfer to Nightfox on Fri May 22 2026 12:55 am

I'm curious what you see as a problem with creating an account?

It just did not feel as i would have full control over who sees my vacation videos. I don't want to sign in somewhere else to watch my own stuff. if it was just a local account then i misunderstood the concept of having this account. I need to have 100% control over a media server. When i have to be afraid that it might does phone home with usage- and meta-data i do not use it. Jellyfin is open source, Plex is closed source.

By default, with Plex, only you have access to watch your videos. You can give permission to other users with a Plex account to get access to watch your videos, but without that, nobody else has permission to view your stuff.

A couple times, when traveling, I've brought one of my streaming devices with the Plex client app installed (which I've already logged into) and plugged it into hotel TVs (using hotel wifi) and I haven't had a problem watching my content remotely.

Nightfox

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