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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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.

What the balls! Are you kidding.

I walked away from Plex years ago, what does it really offer over Emby?

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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: niter3 to Gamgee on Tue May 19 2026 02:53 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.

What the balls! Are you kidding.

I walked away from Plex years ago, what does it really offer over Emby?

I haven't used Emby a whole lot, as Plex has been working well for me, but I had been using Plex so much that I decided to buy their lifetime Plex Pass about 6 years ago, and I got it on sale for about $80. For one thing, I think the Plex user interface is fairly nice and polished, and it has been working fairly well in my experience. I use it to stream my own content, and with the Plex Pass, you get features such as hardware transcoding, skipping intros in TV shows, DVR capability (with a TV tuner) - and that includes commercial detection & skipping commercials in DVR recordings, and others, but those are the main things I use with Plex Pass.

It looks like Emby may do all of the same stuff though. If I ever start having problems with Plex, I may seriously decide to switch to Emby or something else, but for now, Plex is working fine for me. Plex did remove one of their features that I sometimes used though, which was Watch Together (which was another Plex Pass feature), where you could invite someone to watch content with you and it would synchronize it so you could watch together (and if one of you had to pause to use the bathroom or something, it would pause for both of you, etc.).

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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.

What the balls! Are you kidding.

I walked away from Plex years ago, what does it really offer over Emby?

And I use Jellyfin!

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[Plex Pass Lifetime growing from $250 to $750 in July 2026]

What the balls! Are you kidding.

I walked away from Plex years ago, what does it really offer over Emby?

... the big one is Hardware Transcoding... Remote Streaming Relay, Multi-User w/ External Sharing, Mobile Sync/Offline Downloads, Live TV & DVR, Lyrics...

But all that being said, I left Plex LAST time when Lifetime Pass went from $120 to $250; $750 is just... stupid. I'm not saying don't charge - but they've forgotten where they came from IMO; I don't need all the features of Netflix for my homelab... suck it.



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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: paulie420 to niter3 on Tue May 19 2026 05:50 pm

I walked away from Plex years ago, what does it really offer over Emby?

... the big one is Hardware Transcoding... Remote Streaming Relay, Multi-User w/ External Sharing, Mobile Sync/Offline Downloads, Live TV & DVR, Lyrics...

Google says Emby supports hardware transcoding, but it requires an Emby Premiere subscription.

Nightfox

Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: paulie420 to niter3 on Tue May 19 2026 05:50 pm

I walked away from Plex years ago, what does it really offer over Emby?

... the big one is Hardware Transcoding... Remote Streaming Relay, Multi-User w/ External Sharing, Mobile Sync/Offline Downloads, Live

TV &

DVR, Lyrics...

Google says Emby supports hardware transcoding, but it requires an Emby Premiere subscription.

Jellyfin supports hardware transcoding. I use the Intel transcoding on an
11th gen i7 laptop.

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I haven't used Emby a whole lot, as Plex has been working well for me,
but I had been using Plex so much that I decided to buy their lifetime Plex Pass about 6 years ago, and I got it on sale for about $80. For
one thing, I think the Plex user interface is fairly nice and polished, and it has been working fairly well in my experience. I use it to
stream my own content, and with the Plex Pass, you get features such as hardware transcoding, skipping intros in TV shows, DVR capability (with
a TV tuner) - and that includes commercial detection & skipping commercials in DVR recordings, and others, but those are the main things
I use with Plex Pass.

Yes all the same features.

The big one for me is the intergration of IPTV solutions using m3u files.

This gives me the ability to add IPTV to Emby using whatever channels I want and sharing it with family.

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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: niter3 to Nightfox on Wed May 20 2026 07:16 am

This gives me the ability to add IPTV to Emby using whatever channels I want and sharing it with family.

I've thought about trying that, though it seems difficult to find an IPTV server, and I recall reading that you might need to be verified by an IPTV server owner in order to use one?

I have a TV tuner set up with my media server, so I haven't really felt a need to use IPTV (yet).

Nightfox

Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: niter3 to Nightfox on Wed May 20 2026 07:16 am

This gives me the ability to add IPTV to Emby using whatever channels want and sharing it with family.

I've thought about trying that, though it seems difficult to find an IPTV server, and I recall reading that you might need to be verified by an
IPTV server owner in order to use one?

I have a TV tuner set up with my media server, so I haven't really felt
a need to use IPTV (yet).

They just watch how many IP's are coming in and how many streams.

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