The Plex app, incorporated into lots of smart TVs and boxes like Roku and TiVo, manages and displays pretty much any kind of content – photos and home movies, too. Of course, Plex does audio as well, and users can stream their music libraries through a host of compatible devices, most recently Sonos. Legal? Maybe not, but it sure is a nice feature.
Plex also provides a sharing feature so that anyone, anywhere, can view their friends’ copyrighted movies and other content. Users can store videos anywhere on the home network and stream them through local devices, such as TVs, set-top boxes and mobile phones – anything that runs the lightweight Plex client app, which is pretty much everywhere. Today, Plex is mostly known as a free media-management service for (let’s be honest here) ripped DVDs. “We bring a nice, common user interface that is highly extensible.”
“Whole-home movies and photographs is kind of an underserved market at this time,” Plex VP marketing Scott Hancock told me last month … even before the demise of Kaleidescape was announced.
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