I just got the lifetime subscription for 75 bucks and one of the perks is their live tv and dvr functionality. I was wondering how well it works and if its worth getting a tuner and antenna for it.
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Does anyone here use or have experience with Plex Live TV?
- Thread starter Brian McDoogle
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I rarely watch it live but it works great through the Nvidia Shield TV when I do. Mostly I use it to DVR a ton of ota shows to my Plex server from my HD Homerun. Has been awesome for both purposes.
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Which HD Homerun do you have? Also, the website talks about needing a subscription for the guide. Do you need this if you're using it through Plex?
Edit: Looks like the USB tuners that Plex support are all Windows only. Only the HD Homerun products work on Mac.
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Good job on the lifetime plexpass...definitely the right way to go. There are a lot of resources and threads on Plex's forums for tv and dvr...there are still issues with it right now but it works okay and its plex so they will continue to work on it. If you decide to get an antenna and tuner for it i recommend either the 2 or 4 tuner hdhomerun. Let me know what other questions you have.
I have the HDHomeRun EXTEND, it's an older model, but it's worked well for me.
I've never had to pay extra for a guide, no, it just pulls it automatically through Plex with the lifetime pass.
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What is the difference between the 2 or 4 tuner? Is it just number of devices that can simultaneously view live TV? Also, one of the models has hardware encoding; is that important with Plex?
So yeah the main difference between 2 and 4 is the amount of streams/recordings you can run at the same time. The one that has the hardware encoding, the extend, is useful based on what your hardware is. Some devices will not play mpeg2 for the live tv stream so your server would have to do real-time re-encoding of the stream in order for that device to watch live tv. With the Connect 2 or 4 tuner which does not do the hardware transcoding...you can choose to have it transcode to h264 as it records the episodes but that requires a good amount of cpu power. This allows you to store the episodes is smaller, more compatible files. The Extend is more expensive so its up to your hardware and priorites.
I got it for 75 as i bought it a long time ago...but i would buy it for 120 or even more without hesitation.
I know this is a bit of a necro bump, but thought id let you know, had an email yesterday with a discount code to get a lifetime plex pass for $75 (email was in my junk folder). You might have one too ?
Nice, for $75, it's a no brainer, especially with all of the features they've added over the past year or so. I pretty regularly DVR OTA stuff using Plex and my HD Homerun, as well as having a pretty big movie library at this point at my fingertips on multiple devices in my home and when I'm on the road.
Y'know, I totally forgot about this post already. A few months back I did receive one of their $75 lifetime promotions, and I did take them up on the offer. At present I'm not 100% certain I'm actually using any of the Plex Pass benefits beyond reorganizing my music collection with their premium scraper, but it's done!