
Plex Media Server handles the back end, working behind the scenes on your server of choice to keep track of your media, convert it on the fly to streaming-friendly formats, and pipe it to you over your home network or the Internet. “With the right tuner and a Plex Pass subscription, Plex can also play live TV - even remotely over the Internet – and work like a DVR,” Alderman writes. And that’s just the stuff you can do for free.” Better yet, you can share all that media with your Plex-using friends, and enjoy streaming theirs in return. “With a Plex media server and apps on your computers, iOS devices, and Apple TV, you can store and stream your collection of non-DRM movies, TV, music, and more to any device, anywhere. “Think of Plex as ‘iTunes, but for everything you didn’t buy from Apple,'” Nathan Alderman writes for iMore.
