You’ll apparently be able to rent and buy movies and TV shows in early February. You’ll apparently be able to rent and buy movies and TV shows in early February. is a senior reporter covering ...

Fresh on the heels of its $40 million fundraise, streaming media company Plex is today announcing its expansion into a new business: a movie rentals storefront. The addition, which will initially be ...

Some friends and I were talking about the best way to serve up media in our homes. I have a hard drive full of movies I’ve ripped from DVDs I own as well as a few hundred CDs that I’ve ripped over the ...

Plex is finally ready to launch its marketplace for renting and purchasing movies and TV shows. The launch is planned for early February. Plex is also gearing up for a major UX refresh. Plex has ...

Have you guys used Plex lately? We’ve written about the application, which is a Mac-optimized fork of XBMC, in the past, but didn’t mention its latest update. It’s now known as Plex Media Server, and ...

A Plex subscription includes the channel guide, which helps you find your favorite shows and set up recordings. Jim Rossman / TNS Last week’s cord cutting column mentioned Plex as a live TV recording ...

When Microsoft launched its own app store back in the Windows 8 and Windows RT days, it was criticized for being a practical ghost town. It has admittedly grown these days but it seems it's on the ...

One of the great things about Plex—aside from using it to create your own private, sharable streaming library—is just how many platforms it supports. You can use ...

Plex began its life more than a decade ago as media center software for folks that wanted to plug their PC or Mac into a TV. Since then, Plex has evolved into tool that you can use to organize and ...

Some friends and I were talking about the best way to serve up media in our homes. I have a hard drive full of movies I've ripped from DVDs I own as well as a few hundred CDs that I've ripped over the ...