Plex has added over to Amazon Cloud Drive support for Google Drive, DropBox and onedrive serving Plex Cloud, available in beta by the end...
The popular service that allows you to store its episodes of TV shows and movies, your own music and any other type of media is testing for a couple of months now with some testers Plex Cloud users, which basically saves the user from having to Plex install the software on a local device to keep lit to access content stored in it from other devices via streaming, allowing instead of loading directly on cloud storage services supported server files so that you can access through the cloud via streaming.
A revolution for Plex, which was created to allow you to turn a local device in your personal media server.
Activating Plex Cloud, your local server moves on Amazon / Google / Microsoft / DropBox servers, so there will be more 'need to keep turned on the device used as a server, which should lead to savings in terms of electricity.
With Plex Cloud, it is resolved in part one of the most 'big Plex problems: synchronizing files between devices. Everything is saved on the server at the company that manages the cloud storage service used, with the possibility then to choose which files to download and maintain offline on individual devices - for example, if you go on a train ride you can 'download movies on a tablet or smartphone, and the same applies to their favorite music.
One of Plex Cloud limits as the internet connection available to the user: If you have a plan with a very low upload speed, such as ADSL that does not go over 1 Mega, will serve an infinity of time to upload a movie while those who have already 'a VDSL connection (the one that commonly the peddle operators for fiber), can' get away with a minimum of 3 Mega upload, or even 10 or 20 Mbps depending on the offer underwritten.
Coming to the charges, Plex Cloud is only available for users Plex Pass, free of charge, and while the first two months of testing was required to have an Amazon Cloud Drive account, from December 5 Plex head the service also with users with files on Google Drive, DropBox or onedrive. In fact, then, Plex Cloud is made available for free to subscribers to a plan Plex Pass (which still pay at least 5 euro per month) and more 'you pay any cost for the cloud space on Amazon, Google Drive, onedrive or DropBox.
Plex Cloud includes - not initially - all the features offered by Plex, as transcoding and media player software for accessing and organizing your media library. Among the features not available at launch point out the direct upload from the camera, synchronizing with mobile, cloud sync, DLNA and DVR.
Plex Cloud is currently available by invitation only to users Plex Pass that require to participate in the beta program, and soon will be available to all subscribers in Plex Pass without having to request an invitation.
A to discuss Plex Cloud will be the illegal sharing of movies or other series - unfortunately today there are still many people who download movies illegally (because there are still people who do this when with 3 Euros you can 'rent a movie on one of the many legal streaming services is available by asking this question), and inevitably someone will use the service to share pirated content.
