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LG and Plex partnering on TV, BluRay player to take on AppleTV, Boxee Box et al

15 points by Timothee 16y ago

Timothee 16y ago
This one took me a bit by surprise. I've been using Plex for a few months but I thought of this project more as a hobby (not for me, for its developers), the less famous, successful sibling of Boxee's. Basically, it felt like it was a second step from Boxee: one would have heard about and tried Boxee, and then been told to try Plex instead. The developer documentation is almost inexistent, some of their plugins (e.g. Pandora) don't look very good; but still their interface and plugin library are great. I'm interested to see how much of the current Plex will live in these LG products: will I be able to play Netflix and hulu for example? Overall, I'm pretty excited about this.
jnoller 16y ago
This is stunning - as someone who has been trying to find a good, cheap and extensible media solution for my house a box with plex just baked in that also plays blu-rays is a sweet deal in my opinion. Heck, if someone hacks plex onto the new appletv, I'll buy one of those too. I much prefer plex's interface to that of the AppleTV
yardie 16y ago
I certainly didn't expect this one. I always thought the difference between Plex and XBMC was the integration with iLife and it feeling and running like an Apple application. I guess this Plex server is better than I expected if a big company like LG is backing it. I'm curious why they didn't choose the original over a fork. XBMC seems to have a more active community than Plex. Primarily attributable to its availability on multiple platforms. BTW, I'm not in the market to buy another TV for a few more years. But if they manage to get Plex working on the new Apple TV then I would be locked in.
rbranson 16y ago
Uh, guess I'll be delaying my BD player purchase for a while.
akadien 16y ago
That's fantastic news. From hobby project to this. It makes me have second thoughts about my AppleTV order.

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LG and Plex partnering on TV, BluRay player to take on AppleTV, Boxee Box et al

15 points by Timothee 16y ago

Timothee 16y ago
This one took me a bit by surprise. I've been using Plex for a few months but I thought of this project more as a hobby (not for me, for its developers), the less famous, successful sibling of Boxee's. Basically, it felt like it was a second step from Boxee: one would have heard about and tried Boxee, and then been told to try Plex instead. The developer documentation is almost inexistent, some of their plugins (e.g. Pandora) don't look very good; but still their interface and plugin library are great. I'm interested to see how much of the current Plex will live in these LG products: will I be able to play Netflix and hulu for example? Overall, I'm pretty excited about this.
jnoller 16y ago
This is stunning - as someone who has been trying to find a good, cheap and extensible media solution for my house a box with plex just baked in that also plays blu-rays is a sweet deal in my opinion. Heck, if someone hacks plex onto the new appletv, I'll buy one of those too. I much prefer plex's interface to that of the AppleTV
yardie 16y ago
I certainly didn't expect this one. I always thought the difference between Plex and XBMC was the integration with iLife and it feeling and running like an Apple application. I guess this Plex server is better than I expected if a big company like LG is backing it. I'm curious why they didn't choose the original over a fork. XBMC seems to have a more active community than Plex. Primarily attributable to its availability on multiple platforms. BTW, I'm not in the market to buy another TV for a few more years. But if they manage to get Plex working on the new Apple TV then I would be locked in.
rbranson 16y ago
Uh, guess I'll be delaying my BD player purchase for a while.
akadien 16y ago
That's fantastic news. From hobby project to this. It makes me have second thoughts about my AppleTV order.