Without running cloud services for its users, it’s now less likely that the company will go down that route.Plex today announced it’s shutting down its troubled Plex Cloud service, via a forum post that hasn’t found its way over to the company’s official blog - likely a choice the company made in order to downplay the news, or avoid media scrutiny. Plex has for some time supported DVR functionality to record broadcast TV from networks like ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, and Plex Cloud could potentially have been a precursor for a full-blown cloud DVR. On the flip side, pulling out of Plex Cloud also limits the types of new services the company could possibly launch in the future. These sources don’t necessarily require users to run their own servers at all, which means that new users adopting Plex may have less incentive to launch their own dedicated server in the cloud. Initially developed as a solution solely for personal media collections, the company has increasingly focused on incorporating online media sources, including news videos and podcasts. The shuttering of Plex Cloud is also emblematic for a bigger shift for Plex. “While we are super bummed about the impact this will have on our happy Cloud users, ending support for it will allow us to focus on improving core functionality, adding new features and content, and delivering on our mission to provide a world-class product that we can all rely on and enjoy,” the company said Tuesday. However, the company ran into some technical issues, which prompted it to first disable support for Amazon’s cloud storage and then in February halt the creation of new cloud servers. Initially, Plex Cloud was closely tied to Amazon’s consumer cloud storage offering, but the company added support for Google, Microsoft and Dropbox cloud storage soon after as well.īehind the scenes, Plex was augmenting these storage solutions with its own cloud servers, capable of transcoding media on the fly to stream to a wide variety of devices. To account for this, Plex launched Plex Cloud as a cloud-based media server two years ago.
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