In December last year, the streaming platform Plex announced that it was about to launch a streaming service for movies and series with global advertising (in 220 countries), a service that already offers a total of 14,000 titles.
Now, the managers of Plex have announced their decision to expand the offer of its platform by adding more than 80 live TV channels to it, which will be available to both subscribers and users with free accounts.
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Expanding the catalog
Plex already allowed its users to capture and record live TV using a digital antenna and a tuner connected to a media server, but ehis new release saves his users that investment in additional hardware, and the time invested in configuring it.
The channels that Plex adds to its catalog cover a wide range of content: News, cinema, classic TV, children’s, sports and e-sports, musicals, etc. In that list, we can find from Reuters and Yahoo Finance to Surf TV, WeatherSpy, Docurama or IGN TV (and most of them will be available to users around the world.
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All of them will be available through a new section of the platform called ‘Live TV On Plex’, which will show a guide of the available channels and the content that each one of them emits at that moment.
Plex already plays in another league
With this move, Plex definitely stops playing on the same league as Kodi, that of applications intended to broadcast locally hosted multimedia files, to move on to the platforms like YouTube TV (the latter, with a greater offer, but also more restricted in scope due to the price of the service).
Live TV is now for Plex yet another step in a ladder that includes from access to users’ personal libraries to programs and movies both live and on demand, to music and podcasts, and to which the company intends also add a rental library and program purchase.
Track | TechCrunch
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