Just discovered a great free app for movies, PLEX

Yea, don't know how it passed me by all these months, just glad I've got it now.

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Thought I had all the good ones already on my Roku player for free movies...Pluto, Tubi, Peacock, Crackle, Roku Channel. Like all these apps, lots of crummy movies, but a little research always yields hidden gems. In just a few minutes I quickly found a handful of movies to add to my Plex playlist: Paths of Glory, Eyes Wide Shut, Let the Right One In, Monster's Ball, Man From Earth. Plenty more good ones I ran across also, but had seen relatively recently. Give it a try.

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wait til you discover you can curate your own media library in plex.

You have discovered the Plex version of The Roku Channel and the others you listed, but Plex is a full blown media server. Install it on a PC and you can stream movie files to other devices on the network. If you buy the premium version you also get DVR functionality for live local TV if you hook an antenna/tuner up to your PC hosting Plex.

I'd greatly appreciate an invite, been needing a new torrent site forever. Email is twaleights8@gmail.com.

So I subscribe to Criterion Channel and I can let someone else who isn't a subscriber watch my Criterion content? Are all the movies on Criterion a part of "my library?"

Do all of these listed including PLEX, have ads?

Movies you either "pulled down" from a torrent site or even movies you already have on your hard drive. I have movies on mine plus I'll stream gopro vids from it to share. I don't really use the free movies that Plex provides. Say you want to watch Mando s02e01. Go to X torrent site pull it down with a torrent client, copy to your media folder, Plex will index it and the movie/show will be prepared for viewing by the server side. You then load a PLEX client in a firestick/ROKU/phone connect to your PLEX server and it will be there on a menu to watch. About as quick and dirty that I explain. The quality of streams are real good, I'm able to stream over wifi, but going over ethernet is and always will be the best.

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Not familiar, but are you saying by personal libraries that I can place all the movies I have in playlists on different apps all into one place like Plex?

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Any kind of media that you have can placed on a Plex Media Server and streamed on devices throughout your house. I torrent all kinds of shite and have it on an external hard drive that's connected to my home computer.

Plex scans these directories and organizes the media with the embedded metadata. Sometimes I have to correct it with an accurate poster or something or edit the title a bit, but that's just me being anal.

I have the Plex app on my mobile devices as well so the kids can watch their stuff on road trips.

Also, for the IPT invites, I'll get y'all squared away tonight. First come, first served.

I’m sure this isn’t actually the case, but am I the only one who read every message in this thread as if it was cut out of a cheesy infomercial?


-“I just found this great new service”
-“Wait, are you telling me I can get great movies on all my device?!”
-“Yep, streaming right to your own home 7 days a week”
-“That sounds too good to be true”
-“You haven’t even heard the best part... it’s FREE!!!”





Lol

And not trying to be a dick or anything. Just that the way the conversation unfolded felt like it couldn’t be scripted more perfectly for a Plex commercial. So I got a good laugh reading the whole thread in the billy mays infomercial voice