Hi guys and welcome back to another episode
of Tech Sway with me Jay. So today we're looking
at PLEX Media Server. we're looking
specifically at what it is, what it does and
essentially the most important part
is it any good? So first of all what is
plex? Well Plex is a media server or a
centralized database of your own digital
content that allows you to basically
access it from a whole host of different
devices whether that's your mobile phone
tablet TV your PC wherever you are you
should be able to get access to it and
that can basically be both at home and also
whilst your holiday, around a friend's house
wherever. As long as you've got internet
access you're good to go. So the
application itself is available on the
whole host of different mediums as we
can actually see by the website here it
lists all the different things that it's
currently available for and there is a
lot for it. So that is essentially what
it is. So, its your own content. I mean
essentially a simpler way to think of it
is it's your own netflix that you
control what content goes on it, who has
access to it and well... you could charge
people but probably not advisable
because you probably won't be a very
good friend. So that's what it is and
essentially what it does in the same
nutshell as well so what does it look
like well this is kind of the web client
and the web client is also the
management application that you use of
adding libraries so I've already got my
films added here I've got TV shows on
here as well I'm actually using a
different view . So earlier on searching
for a year for TV shows and then I was
actually doing it by the last episode of
the date being added. If I wanted to I
could just do it by the network that has
come from, particular collection actors
genres or we can just select all of the
ones I've not actuall watched or can
just select all and then it will load
everything up. Same with movies, you get
the exact same feature but you can even
goes far as doing the resolutions for it
if you want to as well or even doing
custom filters. Now if you want to you
can also add other libraries so these
would be your music, your photos or even
though the videos like home video
you may have taken or your your own
YouTube videos if you're a youtuber and
you can add them at any point and that's it.
Plex itself is free of charge now
the non mobile applications are also
free of charge to sort of demonstrate
that a little bit more they actually
have an article that does go over this
so essentially everything is free. All
the applications are free you don't have
to pay for them but if you're using say
a iOS windows or android device and you
want to use their the Plex application
is free to install it does have
limitations and the limitations
basically force you to look at getting a
flex pass and these come in at different
prices and they do have different
features so you have a monthly yearly or
lifetime now whilst I'm actually
speaking of these Plex are running a
20% off on their lifetime one and out
of all of them I would probably say
that's the best one to go for because if
you're paying yearly well after 3 and a bit
years on this current deal well you
would have already paid for the lifetime
one so just pay for the lifetime job
done but each to their own. If you're not
sure why you would want to do Plex
Pass then if we go back to this original
document which I will link in the video
description below it actually tells you
what a plex power subscription gets you
so as well as getting you free useful of
the pay for apps as well as the features
and benefits you get things like like
stream trailers and extras so if I
should go to mind film library to
Captain America for example and you'll
see you get extras down here so if a
friends with me and I haven't watched
the film before rather than trying to
explain it and go well just watch a
quick trailer and decide if you want to
watch it if you're a film buff like I
think I am but probably not and you can
actually then start watching over the
behind the scenes so interviews with the
actors now not every film has this I
should say it all depends on the film
and whether or not to actually record
this so that is all down to the film and
making it available with Plex as well
but that's one of the features that you
can actually get other things in here
are you can like record like TV to your
own library so what we're talking about
flex pass I did actually reach out to
plex himself who we're kind of
especially provide me with a lifetime
pass
not for me but for you guys so that's
right we're basically doing a
competition that answer thanks for my
subscribers so thank you for spoiling me
and my way of giving back was reaching
up to them and they give me one lifetime
pass to give away if you want to enter
that competition check the pin comment
down below and enter via the gleam door
i'll link val provide for you guys now
the competition itself will only run for
two weeks after that i'll choose one
lucky winner and i'll announce it
basically on twitter and i also put a
comment under the video but i will need
that the email address from the winner
so i can actually communicate plex
directly and then will basically get
your account upgraded to a lifetime one
so we've looked at plex what it is what
does briefly how it works and or the
actual plex pass features now we're
basically talking about is it any good
so once you compile all of that together
is this entire sort of host of films
it's extras that give the extra detail
all that is it any good yes if I was
going to write out 10 7 out of 10 the
reason why doesn't get 8 is well I'm not
a big fan of paying for stuff especially
when you're forcing it on to the mobile
applications now if I had the choice of
just purchasing maybe sin parts great
i'll probably see that as a better
option but then depending on the company
some companies may try bump the prices
up stuff but overall what do you pay for
that lifetime thing is like a one of
costs and yes whilst there are open
source projects out there and this is
actually a fork of actually at the old
XBMC they've done so much more with it
more than a lot of people I see expected
so seven out of 10 is a score purely
because i think the monthly cost or
yearly cost or even the lifetime cost is
still fairly expensive even with the
twenty percent off another doing at the
moment that sort of make the lifetime
pass more and more comfortable i would
say as the phrase by it's still not
great so found out attend there's two
improvements to be made as always but
there's certainly interesting features
if the Plex cloud works very very well
then we may see that raised to a in a
half half 10 but for now seven out of 10
on clicks I'll recommend / Cody and mb
myself
that's just for the way that I manage my
own library for others they literally
swear by Cody until the day they die so
it'll depend on you I've used everything
this in my opinion what do you guys
think of it what do you think of it
compared to Cody or mb drop comment
below I'd love to hear from you guys and
I'll quite happily discuss these of the
pros and cons of each one down below in
the comments if you fancy doing that so
don't forget the competition guys good
luck to where everyone that entered it
and until next time thank you for
watching and I'll see you guys in the
next video