Entertainment 2.0 from The Digital Media Zone
Jul 22, 2026 · 56 min · 10 segments
On this episode, we dive into the rising costs hitting Apple Music, Plex’s new plan options, and the end of TV Time. Plus, we cover a welcome internet-free upgrade for HDHomeRun owners. To wrap things…
Josh PollardHost
... um, that would make it sound like most of this news is old, and it's not really.
Uh, but some, some pretty important things happening in our world over the last couple of weeks.
And you might be a little bit confused when I tell you that this is about, uh, Plex Pass pricing, and you're gonna say, "But Josh, didn't you talk about that, like, two or three episodes ago?" Yes, I did, but they're making yet another change because just a few weeks ago they announced that they were increasing the cost of a lifetime Plex Pass 200% from $250 to $750, okay? That was the old news, which might...
Like, I might have still needed to warn people to sit down before hearing that so that no one passed out, um, when the, that price is tripling.
Um, I shouldn't say complaints 'cause there's a lot, and I don't wanna disparage anybody who wasn't happy about that, um, because they- they've got a new idea for you.
Okay, 750 bucks for a lifetime, they understand that for some people that's just too much.
But what would you pay for a five-year plan? I've never seen a software as a service do this before.
But this does save you some money because ordinarily if you just wanna pay, like, by the month or by the year, uh, you would be paying $7 a month or $70 per year.
So you will save $100 over the course of five years if you buy the five-year plan.
... um, that would make it sound like most of this news is old, and it's not really.
Uh, but some, some pretty important things happening in our world over the last couple of weeks.
And you might be a little bit confused when I tell you that this is about, uh, Plex Pass pricing, and you're gonna say, "But Josh, didn't you talk about that, like, two or three episodes ago?" Yes, I did, but they're making yet another change because just a few weeks ago they announced that they were increasing the cost of a lifetime Plex Pass 200% from $250 to $750, okay? That was the old news, which might...
Like, I might have still needed to warn people to sit down before hearing that so that no one passed out, um, when the, that price is tripling.
Um, I shouldn't say complaints 'cause there's a lot, and I don't wanna disparage anybody who wasn't happy about that, um, because they- they've got a new idea for you.
Okay, 750 bucks for a lifetime, they understand that for some people that's just too much.
But what would you pay for a five-year plan? I've never seen a software as a service do this before.
But this does save you some money because ordinarily if you just wanna pay, like, by the month or by the year, uh, you would be paying $7 a month or $70 per year.
So you will save $100 over the course of five years if you buy the five-year plan.
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