Author: Justin Pot / Source: howtogeek.com
I know you love Kodi. I do too. But there’s a reason people keep switching to Plex: it’s better.
I know: the two products aren’t directly comparable. Kodi is a local media player, while Plex has a server-and-client model. The initial Plex setup is complex, and kind of confusing at first.
The Plex add-on ecosystem isn’t as robust as Kodi’s, and a lot of Plex’s best features are locked behind a premium subscription paywall.And still, as time goes on, I’ve noticed more and more of my friends—some of whom have written about Kodi professionally for years—are switching over to Plex for watching stuff. Are they crazy?
No. Plex really is that good. Here are a few reasons why.
Plex Keeps Everything In Sync, Easily
If you watch everything on one device, Kodi works perfectly. If you have multiple devices, however, Kodi is going to make you work for it.
First, you need to mount network shares and add all of your stuff to each of your devices. Next, assuming you want to keep your “watched” status in sync, you’ll need to set up MySQL and connect Kodi to it. Give that article a read, then tell us it’s a viable setup for the average user.
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With Plex, by contrast, setting up a Plex server is a one-time thing. After you’ve added your movies, TV shows, and music, you can log in from any other device and all your stuff is there. Even better, you can watch stuff on your Plex server outside your home network with only a little bit of configuration.
You don’t even need a dedicated client. You can log in from any web browser and start watching.None of this is impossible with Kodi, but it’s a lot easier to do with Plex, and you don’t have to worry about updates breaking everything. Of course this doesn’t matter if you do all your TV watching on one device, which is fair enough. But that’s an increasingly small number of people.
Plex Offers an Actually Integrated PVR System
Kodi offers live TV and PVR functionality—sort of. You have to set up a third party PVR program, and then connect it to Kodi. We explained how to set up NextPVR with Kodi, for example, but there are many other applications you can use for the job….
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