Permanent as in as long as its lucrative. Then some investor buys Plex, stoops honoring Lifetine Subscription (aka transforms them) and you are left with nothing.
based on the history of other companies, permanent until they sell the company and buy some island, at which point they’ll freeze all updates (feature and security) to Plex and release PlexGO for a fixed monthly fee.
There are a lot of gated features, the most useful of which is a low quality proxy that transcends CGNAT and Firewalls when you really need to share a video but don’t have a real ip.
Gating hardware encoding is a pretty dick maneuver IMO.
It’s the same as the regular subscription benefits, just permanent.
Permanent as in as long as its lucrative. Then some investor buys Plex, stoops honoring Lifetine Subscription (aka transforms them) and you are left with nothing.
based on the history of other companies, permanent until they sell the company and buy some island, at which point they’ll freeze all updates (feature and security) to Plex and release PlexGO for a fixed monthly fee.
It’s not permanent, but lifetime. When they go bankrupt, they’ll just eliminate those subscribers.
But how about those benefits. Is there caching or no?
No, there isn’t.
There are a lot of gated features, the most useful of which is a low quality proxy that transcends CGNAT and Firewalls when you really need to share a video but don’t have a real ip.
Gating hardware encoding is a pretty dick maneuver IMO.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201751006-plex-pass-feature-overview/