Plex Hi all, I read today that Plex is doubling there Plex Pass lifetime subscription from towards end of April and you can get it atm for the normal price. However,...

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YEs, that was my understanding too BUT since synology is stopping transcoding on there devices and pushing it to the client device, I suspect in my case, the nas wont do the transcoding, even if I purchased plex pass?

I’m just looking at the synology update i have – it seems some people had issues with the 7.2.2-72806 update 3 so slightly wearing now although it been out a month now.

Plus I stumbled upon a link which shows upgrade steps for Synology from 7.2.1 to 7.2.2.  I have also updated plex on 7.2.1 to latest version incase that helps with the update process any.  Tested it after update and still plays on TV so all good. Now to see what happens after updates.

I am running 7.2.1-69057 Update 6 and i need to download and install in following sequence:-

7.2.1-69057 Update 7 (nas never prompted me for this update)

7.2.2-72806

7.2.2-72806 Update 3

Looking in Synology control panel for updates, it shows I can download 7.2.2-72806 Update 3 and install so not sure who is right or wrong but I’m following synology website.  I already downloaded 7.2.2-72806 Update 3 in control panel so now doing a manual install for 7.2.1 Update 7

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doing the update now…

I guess if I need to pay plex pass then its not too bad, just annoying infuse is paid app too :(

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Hope all goes well

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Nas is now updated, tried couple of content and plays ok, will have to try it some more over next week and see what if anything doesn’t work.

I was expecting some contact to stop working but it may just be in a format the appletv can play so hard to tell.

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Been 6 months since I updated the nas and I guess not ideal for security reasons and who knows when synology will force the update to 7.2.2 as 7.2.1 is out of support so made sense to update, will now have to see what I can find out from here.  Worst case I’ll have to by both apps to ensure can continue viewing as is, only good thing is at least they are one time costs and not a yearly cost etc.

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. kev2021 Said:

Nas is now updated, tried couple of content and plays ok, will have to try it some more over next week and see what if anything doesn’t work.

 

 

Defo, good news thus far

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yeah.

So I’ve decided to purchase the plex pass as still unclear if it will/wont affect playback on lan etc and after end of April, the price more than doubles so might as well buy it now and then see how it goes.  Hopefully Plex will still play the content but if not, then I’ll have to get Infuse but as far as I know, the price of that isn’t going up so can buy that after.

Also main driving factor is my cashback on purchases is ending in early April so going to get it now whilst I will hopefully still get some cash back on it I hope.  Also need to figure out how to change my plex email address as I used a free email account for it but now it will have payment details associated, I will see if I can change my email to my regular one so I can get any info etc as my free one I check very very randomly as I don’t have anything of importance going to it.

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So I’ve changed my email, verified it and now bought the plex pass. Purchase has qualified for cashback so makes it *slightly* cheaper but not much but every penny helps :)

Time will now tell if it continues to play as normal now or if I need to buy Infuse.

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What did cashback work out from a savings perspective ?

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less than £1 lol but it al helps.  Cashback on my card is ending early April and then it will only be on certain items/shops so means I wont get it on a fair bit of my purchases but I will on others. So overall I wont make as much in cash back for example, When I bought mum her iPhone i got a few quid back but going forward that wont count so I will get 0 back. However buying food in supermarkets I believe will still count so I’ll get small cashback there.

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