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HBO Max Shrinkflation: Removing features from my plan, with no reduction in price (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Candybar121@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] nakura@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (3 children)

So glad I built a PLEX server.

[–] BitsOfBeard@programming.dev 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Have a look at Jellyfin, if you haven't. I moved from Plex because of restrictions in HW decoding.

[–] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I moved over to Jellyfin because to pay for Plex Premium just to be able to stream my own videos was too much.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

The Jellyfin app is much faster for me on TVs too. Plex was always chugging like it was trying to load too many thumbnails at once. Jellyfin doesn't seem to have this problem.

[–] beeb@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Jellyfin never worked great for me on my older tablet and chromecast. Always struggled with either unsupported codecs or just buffering to hell. My plex server is also on somewhat limited hardware and jellyfin could never transcode fast enough, where plex has no issue.

[–] PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean hardware encoding, because that's what's paywalled in Plex.

I personally migrated from a Jellyfin ecosystem to a Plex with Lifetime Pass one when building my current server - while both are highly capable media servers, Plex has, by far, the better clients.

[–] byrona@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Yup much easier to use Plex, couldn't stand jellyfin

[–] tedd_deireadh@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Same. It's been a much more satisfying investment and has made streaming the content I actually want infinitely easier.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I'm very glad to have been using Plex/Jellyfin for years, since before HBO Max and Disney+ etc were even a thing. It really is a much better experience.