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Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans (www.ign.com)
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Plex has announced a massive price increase on the service's Lifetime Plex Pass. On July 1, the lifetime subscription option will go from $249.99 to $749.99, an increase of 200%. The price hike will only apply to new subscribers, with no changes to monthly or annual subscription pricing.

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[โ€“] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I guess what I should have said was "only one of its kind". As far as I knew, it was the only one that did all the metadata stuff to give it the "streaming service" feel. Being able to share my library to others outside my home without hassle was also big

[โ€“] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

That was before the streaming services or most of the current VPN recommendations existed and Myth was mainly competing with TiVo. So, you could set up a front end remotely, but it would have been painful.

They've always done metadata collection though. What Plex added was the connection so you don't need to set up a VPN for remote access.