Kodi and Plex share a similar lineage, but have diverged into distinct home media server options. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

We might be in the era of cloud streaming and subscription services, but media ownership (both digital and physical) is still alive and well. That said, being able to consolidate and stream your ...

Discrete GPUs also offer flexibility beyond Plex. If your server doubles as a workstation, runs machine learning workloads, or handles other GPU-accelerated tasks, the additional horsepower isn’t ...

After a couple of stops and starts — and some concerns — media player software maker Plex is opening its online service known as Plex Cloud to all paying Plex users. The service, which was first ...

Plex doesn’t exactly hide the fact that it’s a killer app for pirated video. Just look at the marketing materials for the media server software, and you’ll see how easy it is to stream your collection ...

Plex has patched and mitigated three vulnerabilities affecting Plex Media Server for Windows that could enable attackers to take full control of the underlying system when chained together. Plex Media ...

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Video streaming is great -- until you lose access to the movie or TV show that you assumed would always be available on Netflix and Amazon Video. With downloads or physical media, this isn't an issue, ...

Popular media platform Plex today announced the launch of a beta version of the Plex Media Server that has native Apple silicon support. The new version of the Plex Media Server uses the "Universal" ...

I first encountered Plex at CES 2018 when my boss set up an interview with the company. I hadn't really heard of them at all at the time, but I have spent the past month digging into the Plex Media ...