Xbox One and PlayStation users, have we got a great gift for you! Plex apps for your favorite game consoles—all of them—have graduated from their preview periods and are now free for everyone! Joining Xbox 360, as well as our other big screen apps, these newly free ones give users all the basic functionality at no cost. For those of you with a Plex Pass, our premium features, like Parental Controls, Vevo music videos, and Trailers & Extras, look awesome on the big screen.
Yay!
Download links for app.
See Steve353 #20 post.
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ben2005
16 Dec 156#2
It has been free to download on ps4 and xbone but not free to use (needed plex pass) to my knowledge.
Heres a screenshot.
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theunknown80
16 Dec 151#1
it's been always free
Nettle_Warrior to theunknown80
19 Dec 15#24
Cheers Yoda
ben2005
16 Dec 156#2
It has been free to download on ps4 and xbone but not free to use (needed plex pass) to my knowledge.
Heres a screenshot.
M0nk3h
16 Dec 15#3
Finally, its just a shame Plex requires the server software to function, it's the reason I prefer Kodi over Plex. Unless someone can give me some massive differences?
Uridium to M0nk3h
20 Dec 152#25
Kodi is good for streaming web content but Plex is a better option if you just want to stream your own media library. I was an XBMC/Kodi user for many many years but sadly too much focus now is on the web streaming and plug in side.
Plex now has support for many different devices, the media server allows you to easily create multi user folders with automatic bookmarking for resuming playback across devices. My kids love the way they can start a movie on one device stop playback and then pickup from where they left off on any other device in the house (smart TV/Tablet/Now TV box/chromecast).
Yes it means having a NAS or PC on running the media server element but many people have this now anyway.
Not knocking Kodi...it has it's place, but so does Plex :-)
ChrisUK
16 Dec 15#4
You can link into a premium subscription server :wink:
Istanbul_Kop
16 Dec 15#5
Use Plex every night via my Samsung TV. It's great.
Couthedpsyche21 to Istanbul_Kop
16 Dec 151#7
I love the fact that Plex gives all my personal video files automatic synopsis and posters (which gives it a Netflix feel). I use it via my console every oportunity and unlike my other systems, I have no sound syncing issues also use to play 3D format files.
mattk
16 Dec 151#6
Just want the life time pass to drop in price
polly69
16 Dec 15#8
Its always been free its been on my Xbox for months.
Plex is great but if you have files that plex doesnt know and cant find info for it doesn't list Them. Last week i had the boxing and it was labled HBO Klitschko and plex never listed it i ended up calling it Nigella 01x01 to get it to show up. Bit pants really its not a all in one solution, i use mine to share media with family via the net and use a proper Hardware media player myself.
TheMev to polly69
17 Dec 15#14
It's been free on xbox 360 for a few months but this is news to me that it's free on xbox one.. you had to have a plex pass to use it before (allthough the app has always been free).
turnma to polly69
18 Dec 15#21
You can just put files like this in a generic video library (like you would for home videos) and then you'll just get a list of files.
IronGlaive
16 Dec 151#9
But you still need to pay to get anything useful out of these clients apps...right...so not really free
Satan_Claws to IronGlaive
17 Dec 15#12
I don't actually see what benefit there is to paying for it? I use plex daily with a NowTV box and looking at what you get for the paid version I can't see anything extra that would be useful, am I missing something?
It seems to be just Music videos, trailers and sync options but none of these are worth paying for.
mews to IronGlaive
17 Dec 15#16
Nope - it does what you need it to perfectly for free.
There are some value-add things you can add by paying but they're in no way required and not having them doesn't detract from the core experience in any way.
garybb
17 Dec 15#10
Now free about time tested and plays everything i have thrown at it on xbox one have some heat.
tebbo65
17 Dec 15#11
Nice, now for the wait new Plex Media Player to become available!
Jonesy Boy
17 Dec 15#13
I think when you pay, you can control what other users of your flex library can view aswell as the music videos etc. It works on PS3 too, but is a bit slow for browsing, but, far better than using the DLNA server function as it is far prettier than just a long list of movies and TV shows.
Steviepunk
17 Dec 15#15
I believe that you also get the option to have multiple user accounts and parental controls.
Not something I'm bothered about, but might be relevant to some people
darkspace100
17 Dec 15#17
Unfortunately this is no use for me as i wanted to use my phone to cast videos to my ps4 but you need a computer running which is expensive to keep on just to sync videos to ps4 and i don't even own a PC anyway. I just want to cast showbox videos to the ps4 but it seems impossible to cast anything to ps4.
ben2005 to darkspace100
17 Dec 15#18
I remember in the past i used a dlna server on my phone to share online videos to the ps4, but the ps4 cinivia protection kicks in :-(
darkspace100
17 Dec 15#19
I also tried using the ps4 media player to stream a showbox movie but the ps4 can't keep the connection to my stream for more than 5 minutes at maximum. Its really annoying.
is this now available on PS3? ive got the plex app downloaded but obviously was not able to use it.
Steve353
18 Dec 15#23
The op link indicates some services are available but I'm not sure if a pass is still required or not.
M0nk3h
20 Dec 15#26
The picking up of playback would actually prove handy, shame Kodi doesn't have this but apart from that some valid points as to why you'd want to switch. I have a DS215j with the Plex server sitting in the addons but from what I hear, playback isn't that great so have refrained from installing it. My main setup is via a Raspberry Pi 2 and my NAS for storage which generally works well.
I may look into getting a low powered server for Plex to see how it compares.
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Opening post
Xbox One and PlayStation users, have we got a great gift for you! Plex apps for your favorite game consoles—all of them—have graduated from their preview periods and are now free for everyone! Joining Xbox 360, as well as our other big screen apps, these newly free ones give users all the basic functionality at no cost. For those of you with a Plex Pass, our premium features, like Parental Controls, Vevo music videos, and Trailers & Extras, look awesome on the big screen.
Yay!
Download links for app.
See Steve353 #20 post.
Top comments
Heres a screenshot.
All comments (27)
Heres a screenshot.
Plex now has support for many different devices, the media server allows you to easily create multi user folders with automatic bookmarking for resuming playback across devices. My kids love the way they can start a movie on one device stop playback and then pickup from where they left off on any other device in the house (smart TV/Tablet/Now TV box/chromecast).
Yes it means having a NAS or PC on running the media server element but many people have this now anyway.
Not knocking Kodi...it has it's place, but so does Plex :-)
Plex is great but if you have files that plex doesnt know and cant find info for it doesn't list Them. Last week i had the boxing and it was labled HBO Klitschko and plex never listed it i ended up calling it Nigella 01x01 to get it to show up. Bit pants really its not a all in one solution, i use mine to share media with family via the net and use a proper Hardware media player myself.
It seems to be just Music videos, trailers and sync options but none of these are worth paying for.
There are some value-add things you can add by paying but they're in no way required and not having them doesn't detract from the core experience in any way.
Not something I'm bothered about, but might be relevant to some people
PS3 link
I may look into getting a low powered server for Plex to see how it compares.