Comments on: Announcing Plex

By: alex

alex — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:23:33 +0000

If anything why not give it a small little quirk and make it something like http://www.plexible.com

By: iRoNBiLL

iRoNBiLL — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:10:45 +0000

How about Plex OS? http://www.plexos.org – I just wanted to say, I don’t think you should change the name of Plex. It’s a solid name, already has recognition among non mac users and has a uniform look to the name. It’s sexy time!

Bill

By: fbhidy

fbhidy — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:20:34 +0000

How about:
osXpleX.com
or OS-pleX.com

By: anon

anon — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:58:07 +0000

Plex is awesome. That’s what I love about Mac apps — beautiful, concise, evocative names.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:52:02 +0000

Yeah, as Joe said, getplex.com or plexapp.com would be good. It’s generally the format for hip new Mac application domain names, anyway.

Or maybe something neat like plex.is?

By: grey

grey — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:39:11 +0000

I have to say I prefer osxbmc, it rolls off the tongue, not really digging plex as a name either (and as others pointed out, domain names registered, trademarked, etc.) I realize old xbmc people didn’t like it, but who cares? They didn’t like a lot of what you guys were doing, but that didn’t stop you from working on a great product.

Anyway, not my call – as long as the end result is as good as it is now call it whatever you want. Myfuckinggod1080ponamacmini is a mouthful, but I’d use it all the same.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:36:14 +0000

getplex.com or plexapp.com in an attempt to avoid the whole ’squared’ thing?

By: Isaacisonvacation

Isaacisonvacation — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:39:47 +0000

@jezzx looks like the email address you entered when registering was invalid? Force validated you, log in and double check your address. Did the same for Althekiller also since he wasnt validated.

By: Rob Finch

Rob Finch — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:33:24 +0000

The Joy Of Plex. Someone mock up a book cover!

I like the name, but agree including the square because of the domain name lessens the appeal slightly. But what’s in a name? The app is awesome, regardless of what it ends up being called.

By: boodai

boodai — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:21:14 +0000

http://gizmodo.com/5022633/xbox-media-center-renamed-plex-and-looking-hotter-than-ever

Plex has made it onto gizmodo. Of course they got lots of stuff wrong and I’m sure the xbmc team will be upset over what they got wrong.

BUT

It is great advertising for Plex.

By: elan

elan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:59:01 +0000

Ha! That is pretty funny the similarities between the Plex proto-logo and plex.nl one. I doubt anyone would believe me when I say that I never saw the latter before working on the former. I think I the bottom line is the boxes with text in them are pretty common logos

By: niad

niad — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:23:40 +0000

NICE!

By: Jezz_X

Jezz_X — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:11:02 +0000

i(anything) sounds like mac thats the whole problem with it just makes it sound like the 5000 other people out there trying to cash in on the ipods fame an fortune

P.S. I screwed up my registration on the forum and the email is wrong but I can’t access the section of my profile to chanege it without activation and I can’t activate without the right email :\ (user Jezz_X) if anyone wants to take a look at some time

By: Blackstar BSP

Blackstar BSP — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:08:01 +0000

If Plex is trademarked, maybe Elrod’s idea of iPlex (which does have a nice ring to it and an Apple tradition imho) would be a better choice?

Any of the Plex2, PlexSquared, etc I’m sure would be fine too but iPlex just says ‘Mac’ to me. Call me a traditionalist.

By: jms_uk

jms_uk — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:35:07 +0000

Nice work on Plex!!

Just thought I’d mention it, as I’m not really sure its a Plex “bug” so to speak..

The new XBMCHelper seems to be confusing Virtual Machines running under both Parallels and VMWare Fusion – it appears to be getting picked up by those systems as an additional HID device, causing the keyboard operation within the VM to stop working (the mac gives a bleep indicatiing some kind of input grab failure)

The XMBCHelper never used to do this so I guess it might be some of the changes..

Anyway, like I said, I’m not sure if this is a Plex team issue or something that should be logged with Parallels/VMWare

By: jason.western.australia

jason.western.australia — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:18:58 +0000

OSX (self explanatory) BMC (Barkley Media Centre)

By: elan

elan — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:23:22 +0000

@coffeemocca: As a coder who threw together the silly logo, I’d love to get any and all input Feel free to email me or start a post in the forums!

By: coffeemocca

coffeemocca — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:04:24 +0000

I like the name, but as a graphic designer i feel abit of stronger rebranding could be done! let me know if there is going to be an open contest?

By: MJesusfan

MJesusfan — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:09:36 +0000

Uh, watch out. Plex is maybe a trademark.

A new german POS SaaS software for mac – from http://simplyselling.net – startet under the name Plex in 02/2008. But they had to rename it to plex:connect.

I dont know, if they had violated a trademark worldwide or only national.

Hopefully you don´t get the same legal Probs.

By: Don

Don — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:01:55 +0000

Plex? As in complex? not sure…

By: rickler

rickler — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:24:17 +0000

I reckon the XBMC team are jealous at the progress made on this project and of the support.

I personally like Plex – feels very Macish.

By: elan

elan — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:51:27 +0000

The XBMC team requested that we remove any occurrence of “XBMC” from the name. “OSXBMC” seemed to be particularly despised. Also, having a name that’s actually pronounceable is considered a good thing

By: johannes.999

johannes.999 — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:29:00 +0000

yeah exspecially because everyone already knows xbmc and the name is just connected with this great software…
I mean the aim of this project is and was to port xbmc to mac,so why cant you keep the great name and the wonderfull logo of xbmc/osxbmc?
If you change all the things which are related to the original xbmc you will just become one media center under thousands….

By: some guy

some guy — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:09:36 +0000

yes, I am also wondering why you can’t just keep it named “osxbmc” regardless of how forked it is, etc.

It seems like the easiest route…

By: boodai

boodai — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:38:56 +0000

Plex is a fine name, but Plex squared leaves a lot to be desired. Expecially since it is only because you can’t get a domain name. Noone will ever call it plex square or plex squared, they will just call it plex and be done. And if they are going to be just calling it plex, then why not just name it plex? There are loads of domains you can get for plex.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:28:36 +0000

Plex is a very nice name but Plex^2/plexsquared is confusing. How about using “PLEX” (all caps) as the name? http://www.plexsquared.com can still be the website but I would get rid of the PLEX^2 logo at the top of the page and go with the PLEX box logo for consistency.

By: neuro

neuro — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:56:09 +0000

Plex², like it I’d love to see some of the stuff that boxee are working on folded into Plex² … while their skin is stunning, and the scripts they preinstall are really useful, OSXBMC … err, I mean Plex² is much much more stable and functional.

By: Elrod

Elrod — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:33:30 +0000

Personal Leisure Exclusivly on osX

By: Elrod

Elrod — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:31:21 +0000

iPlex

By: Rez

Rez — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:13:56 +0000

I, being more the art house type and not a huge fan of cineplexes, am not too wowed by the new name. Nonetheless I’m very happy about the move away from the awkward and misleading “XBMC”.

I’m very curious about the coming skin and graphic design. Please don’t make it too bright and orange though! Personally I think, dark tones suite a cinema/movie application better.