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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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 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.

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... ;-)

I heard about that. $750 seems pretty steep.. I bought a lifetime Plex Pass for about $80 6 years ago, and I'm glad I did.

Nightfox

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Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 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.

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... ;-)

I heard about that. $750 seems pretty steep.. I bought a lifetime
Plex Pass for about $80 6 years ago, and I'm glad I did.

You got a great deal there, for sure.

I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about
accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed for me.

I don't think I'd spend $750 for it in any case. Maybe $250, but....
don't need it.



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On 19 May 2026, Gamgee said the following...

I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed for me.

interesting. is there just a setting somewhere not to try transcoding? do you have problems with it ever?

i keep putting this off because most of the articles about home streaming setups instantly get into GPU stuff.. which i normally wouldn't mind but everything is so overpriced :/

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Tue May 19 2026 08:28 pm

I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed for me.

I used to think nothing I had needed transcoding, but I realized it was still transcoding some files. If Plex detects a low-bandwidth connection, even in your own network (perhaps over wifi if it's not getting a great connection), Plex could start to transcode to save bandwidth.

One of the other Plex Pass features is being able to detect & skip intros for TV shows, which I find handy. Also, if you have a TV tuner, you can use Plex as a DVR to record shows with Plex Pass - I use that to record Jeopardy & a couple other things.

Nightfox

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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 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.

Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.

Plex free version does everything I want.

Denn

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Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Tue May 19 2026 08:28 pm

I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed for me.

I used to think nothing I had needed transcoding, but I realized it was still transcoding some files. If Plex detects a low-bandwidth
connection, even in your own network (perhaps over wifi if it's not getting a great connection), Plex could start to transcode to save bandwidth.

Understood, but my Plex is wired ethernet connected and haven't ever had issues with that.

One of the other Plex Pass features is being able to detect & skip
intros for TV shows, which I find handy. Also, if you have a TV tuner, you can use Plex as a DVR to record shows with Plex Pass - I use that
to record Jeopardy & a couple other things.

I don't even watch any of the free Live TV channels, and don't have a TV tuner. I have regular cable TV service too, with a DVR, so don't need
that function on the Plex. I realize my usage is probably not the
typical setup, but it's all I need it for, and works well for me. :-)



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Denn wrote to Gamgee <=-

Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 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.

Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.

Plex free version does everything I want.

Yep, same here. Just wanted to pass on that info for any folks that
might have been thinking about the Lifetime Pass.



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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Nightfox to Gamgee on Tue May 19 2026 20:15:23

One of the other Plex Pass features is being able to detect & skip intros for TV shows...

Does it know the difference between opening credits and a prologue scene?

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Wed May 20 2026 08:42 am

I used to think nothing I had needed transcoding, but I realized it was
still transcoding some files. If Plex detects a low-bandwidth
connection, even in your own network (perhaps over wifi if it's not
getting a great connection), Plex could start to transcode to save
bandwidth.

Understood, but my Plex is wired ethernet connected and haven't ever had issues with that.

Both your Plex server and your TV (or other devices you watch Plex with)?

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Mortar to Nightfox on Wed May 20 2026 09:40 am

One of the other Plex Pass features is being able to detect & skip intros
for TV shows...

Does it know the difference between opening credits and a prologue scene?

Yes, sort of. For a TV show, Plex Media Server scans the video files to look for the intro - I think it looks for video that repeats in every file and marks that as the intro to skip. It also recognizes credits at the end of a TV show and lets you skip those.

For movies, it can optionally detect credits.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Mauro to MRO on Wed May 20 2026 10:59 am

I migrated to Jellyfin! The stupid price politics of Plex, and the new app, not encourage me to continue with Plex.

I'm used to the new app now, though I'm disappointed that they removed the Watch Together feature (at least for the Roku app).

I bought a lifetime Plex Pass membership about 6 years ago, and I'm still happy using Plex for now, so I plan to continue using Plex for now. If they start changing things that I'm not happy with, then I'll consider switching.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Wed May 20 2026 08:42 am

I used to think nothing I had needed transcoding, but I realized it was
still transcoding some files. If Plex detects a low-bandwidth
connection, even in your own network (perhaps over wifi if it's not
getting a great connection), Plex could start to transcode to save
bandwidth.

Understood, but my Plex is wired ethernet connected and haven't ever had issues with that.

Both your Plex server and your TV (or other devices you watch Plex
with)?

Yes, the Plex server and the Roku device connected to the TV (with HDMI)
are connected with wired ethernet.



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fusion wrote to Gamgee <=-

i keep putting this off because most of the articles about home
streaming setups instantly get into GPU stuff.. which i normally
wouldn't mind but everything is so overpriced :/

I'm new to the GPU thing, wondering myself about how GPU usage works.
If I use my GPU for an LLM like Olama, can it display graphics as well?
I have a low-ish end card and onboard graphics. The only reason I need
the graphics card is for one game.

I'm considering transcoding a ton of video files to an iTunes/iPhone
friendly, lower resolution format to save space and wondering about how
that works when it's using the GPU.




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Nightfox wrote to Mauro <=-

I'm used to the new app now, though I'm disappointed that they removed
the Watch Together feature (at least for the Roku app).

A long time ago, the weekly MRC chat morphed into a watch party - I
think the first was "Hackers". Quite a few people watched a streamed
version, others watched their own copies and synced them by timestamp.

It was a lot of fun. I wonder what software they used - I think there
were 10+ people watching the stream and at least double that in chat.



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Hello Nightfox!

** On Wednesday 20.05.26 - 11:21, Nightfox wrote to Mortar:

[...] Plex Media Server scans the video files to
look for the intro - I think it looks for video that repeats in every file and marks that as the intro to skip. It also recognizes credits at the
end of a TV show and lets you skip those.

For movies, it can optionally detect credits.

Some films have surprise film segments after the credits.


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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Nightfox to Mortar on Wed May 20 2026 11:21:45

For movies, it can optionally detect credits.

How does it handle in-credit/post-credit scenes?

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On 21 May 2026, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

I'm new to the GPU thing, wondering myself about how GPU usage works.
If I use my GPU for an LLM like Olama, can it display graphics as well?
I have a low-ish end card and onboard graphics. The only reason I need
the graphics card is for one game.

yeah. the gpu is actually several processors. or groups of them on the GPU die i guess. then think of the display part as (in this context) an unrelated place to dump stuff.

you have the actual 2d/3d rendering cores.. you could think of it a bit like floating point processors for other types of math. that just so happen to be able to also instantly copy the result to the screen. instead your favorite LLM program reads the result and decodes it.

then you have one that does video encoding and decoding .. and these ones are specific ..

i probably shouldn't have been concerned cause it looks like a P400 (~GTX 1050) does 8x1080p or 4x4k just fine and those are $30-40 on eBay..

the only thing it sounds like you might want to watch for is if you want HDR content (needs 10bit), want more 4k streams, or if you want AV1 support

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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Ogg to Nightfox on Thu May 21 2026 08:17 am

For movies, it can optionally detect credits.

Some films have surprise film segments after the credits.

That's true.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Mortar to Nightfox on Thu May 21 2026 01:23 pm

For movies, it can optionally detect credits.

How does it handle in-credit/post-credit scenes?

I don't think it does.

Nightfox

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fusion wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

you have the actual 2d/3d rendering cores.. you could think of it a bit like floating point processors for other types of math. that just so happen to be able to also instantly copy the result to the screen.
instead your favorite LLM program reads the result and decodes it.

then you have one that does video encoding and decoding .. and these
ones are specific ..

i probably shouldn't have been concerned cause it looks like a P400
(~GTX 1050) does 8x1080p or 4x4k just fine and those are $30-40 on
eBay..

the only thing it sounds like you might want to watch for is if you
want HDR content (needs 10bit), want more 4k streams, or if you want
AV1 support

To clarify, I don't need to run LLMs and transcode at the same time -
these would be operations I'd run while using the computer for
basic web/office work.



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