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SHOULD YOU DITCH Plex?

Plex (www.plex.tv) has long been one of our favourite ways to organise and enjoy our videos, music, photos and other media files on any device. But recently the company has made a few decisions that have disappointed many users, and led to us looking for an alternative streaming service that doesn’t suffer the same problems. Here we explain why you might consider ditching Plex, and what you should use instead.

WHY YOU SHOULD DITCH PLEX

Plex has dropped support for older PCs

After 10 April, Plex will no longer support computers that run Windows 7 and 8.1. The latest version of its Media Server software (1.32) will only work on Windows 10 and 11 PCs, and though you’ll still be able to use previous versions on an old machine, they won’t receive

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