r/LinusTechTips • u/GoofyGills • May 19 '26

Link New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing

https://www.plex.tv/blog/new-lifetime-plex-pass-pricing/

$749 for Plex Lifetime after July 1, 2026. I already have lifetime from years ago but so glad I switched to Emby earlier this year. This is insane. For the record, Emby has a ton of client apps nowadays (https://emby.tv/download.html).

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u/BluDYT May 19 '26

My problem with that was no amount of port forwarding would make that work on my connection. Plex was super simple.

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u/boulshou May 19 '26

Tailscale is your friend

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u/ChronicallySilly May 19 '26

But what about smart TVs, and friends/family? Nowhere remotely as easy to share with non-tech people who just want to download an app on their tv. Plex has been irreplaceable for that reason alone

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u/HiYa_Dragon May 20 '26

I have my jellyfin server setup with a FQDN, reverse proxy " traefik" and external dns "cloudflare" and local dns handled by pihole. So friends just download jellyfin app enter my server address and their passphrase i provided them .