Media platform Plex in the present day introduced that it’s elevating costs for the Plex Move subscription service, marking the primary value improve that Plex has launched in a decade.
Beginning on April 29, the Plex Move will value $6.99 per thirty days or $69.99 per yr, with a lifetime buy possibility out there for $249.99. Proper now, the lifetime Plex Move prices $120, whereas the month-to-month possibility is $4.99 and the annual possibility is $39.99.
Plex says that it wants to lift costs to maintain up with rising prices, and that the added funds will be sure that Plex is ready to maintain growing new options.
Together with rising costs, Plex is not going to supply distant playback for private media as a free service. Plex customers who need to have the ability to stream content material that is not on the identical native community because the server could have two choices.
A Plex Move will enable server house owners to supply distant media streaming to family and friends members with out an extra cost, so solely the server proprietor wants the Plex Move, not the customers streaming the content material. Alternatively, if the server proprietor doesn’t have a Plex Move, distant streaming will nonetheless be out there if the particular person accessing the server has a Plex Move or a brand new Distant Watch Move.
Plex is introducing a brand new Distant Watch Move subscription possibility aimed toward those that wish to stream media with out internet hosting a server. It permits particular person customers to remotely stream media from any private media server they’ve entry to, even when the proprietor of that server doesn’t have a Plex Move.
The Distant Watch Move is priced at $1.99 per thirty days or $19.99 per yr, and will probably be out there beginning on April 29.
Plex customers who’ve a Plex Move already will proceed to have the ability to use distant playback from any Plex Media Server after the adjustments are carried out, as will customers who’ve entry to their servers. Plex Move lifetime subscribers will see no change, however month-to-month and yearly subscribers will see costs go up in April.
As distant streaming is turning into a paid characteristic on Plex, Plex is eradicating the one-time activation price that removes playback limitations within the Plex iOS and Android apps, and there’ll not be a one-minute playback limitation.
The adjustments to private media streaming don’t impression viewing on the identical native community. Free, ad-supported streaming of films, reveals, and reside TV on Plex can even stay free.
