Those who don’t have a subscription shouldn’t fret – the company has something for those users too, as the Plex Media Player app is now available for free for all. To get the add-on, users will need to have a Plex Pass subscription, which is not unusual for new features. Now with the Plex add-on, users needn’t choose which one to use – or as Plex puts it, ‘they can have their cake and eat it too’. The two have morphed into completely different entities over the years meaning their differences now outweigh their similarities. So why exactly would anyone want Plex on Kodi? Well, it’s quite simple. Now prospective Plex users needn’t give that up. Kodi is widely regarded as one of the most customisable media centre solutions currently on the market, with countless add-ons and the ability to change every setting on earth to suit the user’s exact needs. There are a few omissions in this release however, with remote control support, channel support and some music features missing.
Support for all the features users know and love from Plex is included, meaning users can access their at-home or in-the-cloud media servers to enjoy movies, TV shows, music or photos without having to give up their Kodi media player. Launched as a Kodi add-on, the experience is similar to what avid fans of the media server software are used to, albeit from within the Kodi ecosystem. Plex has already launched apps for Android, Apple TV, Chromecast, iOS, Roku, Xbox and a whole range of smart TVs, just to name a few, but its latest release enables users to have the best of both worlds. While Kodi is still primarily a media player, Plex has become an extremely powerful and user-friendly media server solution – which is great for accessing media from anywhere in the world. While Plex began as an off-shoot of XBMC, the two have taken some drastically different paths. Despite that image, Kodi is a completely legal, free and open-source media player software that is extremely versatile. In recent years, the Kodi software has become synonymous with illegal pirating due to the avalanche of modded boxes which have taken the UK by storm. Since then the company has been known as XBMC, and since 2014 known simply as Kodi. Kodi has been a pretty big force in the media player industry, having launched as the Xbox Media Player back in 2002. The latest news comes from Plex, which has just announced support for the Kodi media player software. There’s no denying that 2016 has been a crazy year, but with just a month to go, curve balls are still being thrown at us.
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