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I paid month-by-month for longer than I should have, and bought a lifetime pass back when they were still $75. I suggest you try out Plex Pass for a month and see if you like it. I think 3 kids (none of which were mine) ended up watching an entire showing of Despicable Me on my phone. and ended up grounded in Cleveland due to weather and I think Mobile Sync saved the day for everyone near us as we sat for 2 hours on the tarmac.
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It's not as beneficial now that every app (Netflix, Amazon Video, Youtube Kids, etc.) has an offline video capability, but it's still nice to have your own media with you. You said you have kids and 4 iPads - let me just say as a parent as well that Mobile Sync is a godsend. I guess I use "Early Access" and obviously the "Free Access to Plex Apps" but the Cloud Sync never provided me any benefits as I leave my Mac-Mini on all the time, and I never had great luck with the Camera Upload (plus I found an app called Photosync which really does a better job of syncing photos/video from all of my devices to a drop folder on the Mac). Of all the Plex Pass features I only use Mobile Sync. I bought one of these so that I could use cheaper USB3 drives instead of Thunderbolt drives, and it has made file transfers and backups so much faster than USB2. I have a 512GB SSD and 2TB HDD in mine, with a 3TB external HDD. So my next decision is whether or not I get the plex pass! And I need more storage and have to setup time machine to back up the data and the os.
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And binge watching seasons is great, I wait for a season to end and let newer shows record full seasons then watch those. I have to say,being able to go through shows without commercials and fast forward is great.
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I love skipping the commercials as well! My kids actually complained about me not stripping out the commercials!i told them to strip them out if they can't fast forward. I am using the Tablo app through the plex channel and using one of the home grown apps to take shows off the Tablo drive. If they allowed the Tablo to be part of the DVR live tv, it might seal the deal. I like the downloading aspect of it alone. My kids have paid to authorize app and I am wondering/debating if the plex pass is worth the money. Love the artwork and synopsis, and the theme music. I don't plan on letting many if any people stream from me because of the Comcast data cap.
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I also sent my brother an invite to see how it streams for him, waiting to hear back on how it worked for him remotely. Multiple Mac computers app n the house as well. We have 4 iPads, 5 iPhones, a fire tv, 2 atv 4's and one atv 3.
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I don't want to deal with transcoding and we are a total apple household.
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I encode everything with handbrake, MP4 h.264. I have to say, I am very impressed so far with this streaming across my network. I'm using a Mac mini core i5 with 16gb of ram. Please go to the relevant subreddits and support forums, for example: Build help and build shares posts go in their respective megathreads No referral / affiliate links, personal voting / campaigning / funding, or selling posts Welcome to /r/Plex, a subreddit dedicated to Plex, the media server/client solution for enjoying your media! Plex Community Discord Rules Latest Regular Threads: No Stupid Q&A: Tool Tuesday: Build Help: Share Your Build: Submit Troubleshooting Post Files not showing up correctly?