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New Plex support for Windows Phone and DNLA, first look

2012-01-10
hey guys this is david with the verge and i'm here at the plex booth at showstoppers and we're looking at some of the new stuff that they've got Plex is a media server system that lets you stream from a computer or any media server to all kinds of different devices they have a mac client they have an android client there's an app for iOS and now they're branching out into a whole bunch of new things and adding some new features so let's take a look at the Windows Phone client which is one of the coolest things so the plex client is pretty in functionality pretty similar to the iOS and Android apps you can look through your various servers and they have channels which is kind of like the way Roku does it you can see different sites and watch things that way there's a queue which has movies that you've sent yourself to watch you get an email address that you can send a link to and it puts it there there's also new recommended feature Plex is launching some new social features that will plug into Facebook and let people say hey you should watch this video and then it'll show up in your recommended cute for you to watch so it's got the Metro UI it's a pretty nice-looking app and it's pretty full featured for everything that flex can do and you can stream movies and all that pretty easily so they have Windows Phone and all of this stuff over here they have there's a DLNA app there's a nap in the Samsung store there's a new google TV app coming out they already have one but it's getting a refresh to look better from far away back on your couch and basically their goal is just to be everywhere and lets you stream from a single server single space to any device in your house and the whole stack just got a lot bigger and that's what plex is up to at CES
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