From the article:
Asked about how rival Channels DVR can record content from free video sources and TV Everywhere apps, [Scott] Hancock [, Plex’s vice president of marketing] said Plex wouldn’t facilitate that.
“It would break our agreements with providers,” he said.
I agree Plex DVR has never been that great but their streaming Service is pretty good .... Alos their auto collection feature is great ... and of course profiles.
Their DVR was fraudulent when I tried it 2 years ago. The best it could do was possibly record something you scheduled (if the listings were even correct) and play it back after recording was done. If you stopped it didn't save your place.
I asked for my money back 2 months in to a year sub and they ignored me. They advertised it as a DVR and it didn't even pass as a rudimentary recorder. I had little use for the other features such as movies and streaming.
Is the "DVR" better these days?
The only reason I still have Plex installed is for music. I wish I could find a light weight music only server. The Plex client mostly crashes when launched. Every 3rd or 4th try, it will run for a while.
The DVR is much better they get the listings from Gracenote same as Channels DVR. It also supports multiple guide listings now.
Try the free LMS (Logitech Music Server), formerly Squeezebox. (I tried Plex first. Hated it.)
I have LMS on a small Atom-based server, and use free player apps from various volunteer devs for Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS to listen to ripped CDs, streaming services like Tidal and Qobuz, and internet radio like SomaFM and Radio Paradise.
Just saw this thread on Reddit. It might be relevant.
Funny, someone mentioned another "LMS" there, but that is the "Lightweight Music Server" with a much smaller user base. Also Plex is mentioned multiple times, but I say Plex tries to do too many things and never does any of them well.
Most relevant general music tech forums (to me): head-fi.org and audiophilestyle.com
I have been using Airsonic (a free fork of Subsonic) for years. It is hands down the best music server I have ever used for remote streaming.
I first tried channels just as a way to integrate more of my media into plex but after using both services channels is just a better fit for my family and works better as a DVR. I do miss the Plex interfaces though and the information on the cast.
I use Plex for my local media collection. I used to use Emby for many years, but when i made the move from Android to Apple devices, Emby was very lacking and way behind in development.
Plex also has worlds better content matching and search, at least for how my collections are setup.
I used Emby as my main DVR before i discovered Channels DVR. Never tried Plex DVR.
Channels DVR is just what i wanted, a nice and far superior "Cable box" replacement.
I've been tinkering with Plex since the holidays and it does have a nice graphical appeal and it handles my library very well, but Channels is far superior as a DVR and Media Server.
Unless you have the HDHomerun connected you will not have access to any real live content you can record or watch. I'm staying with Channels.
I stick with Both, Channels DVR for recording and LiveTV.... I also use Channels DVR M3U and XMLTV input to Plex Via XTEVE. Still Prefer Plex as my media server... But Channels is catching up just need more automation. My Library is too large to start manually adding Collections.
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