Plex Wants to Become the One-Stop-Shop for Streaming

For media nerds, cordcutters, and tech lovers, Plex is a powerful media platform. It handles music, movies, and even games. And it is about to get even better.

Plex Is Expanding Its Catalog

Plex has to be one of the most comprehensive media platforms available. With movies, Live TV, gaming, and music all part of its repertoire, Plex users have got it pretty good (aside from a few minor niggles... gapless music playback please, Plex, if you're reading).

Well, expect that content catalog to grow, as a post on the Plex Blog announces a huge funding injection to the tune of $50 million, hoping to transform the service into a "one-stop shop for all the content you care about, no matter where it comes from."

What Does This Mean for Plex?

Plex says that this capital injection will allow it to become "the single best content enjoyment platform in the world, period."

How does Plex plan to do this? Well, according to the blog post:

We’ll be able to invest more into our engineering, product, and content teams to make sure we get the best people to solve the challenging problems that we’re tackling.

So, on the business side of things, this funding means Plex can optimize its platform and iron out any bugs the past year has presented, or make improvements to the service as required.

What Does This Mean for Plex Users?

Plex is clearly playing its cards close to its chest. Details are fairly slim on what we can expect. For those with personal media collections, Plex says:

... we will continue to support, develop, and innovate even better methods to help you organize, curate, and enjoy your media collections with beautiful interfaces and dashboards that take the headache out of managing all those different formats, sources, and media types.

So you'll still be able to have your media server, but Plex is streamlining this element of the platform so you can display your media in a way that suits you. Plex has "some awesome ideas up our sleeves to make the Plex you know and love even more powerful, personalizable, and elegant."

Plex hasn't left its Pass holders out in terms of live TV channels and movies, as it will add more content here too.

What Is Plex?

If you are wondering what Plex actually is, it is a media platform that brings together the media you already own and have on your server, with live TV channels, free movies, integration with other apps like Tidal, and you can even play games via Plex Arcade.

The great thing about Plex is you can take it anywhere, so if you have the Plex app on your smartphone, for example, you can access all the music on your media server while you're out and about (providing you have an internet connection to stream the media).

A Plex Pass will cost you only $4.99/month as a rolling subscription (which, if you like Kung-Fu movies, is worth it for Wu-Tang Collection live TV channel alone).

Are You a Plex Subscriber?

This writer is so, like him, you're probably pretty excited Plex has received this funding. The service is fantastic and provides a brilliant platform to enjoy all of your media, whether that is hearing, reading, watching, or playing.

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