I just wanted to let you know that the article is what turned me on to Plex (and BTW there is also a little article about Plex in the November issue of MacLife as well and they give it a “Solid” rating which I would say is pretty good for a young productl).

I own and operate a custom electronics installation company and I am a huge Mac evangelist (been using them since 1984), so I have been looking for a front end for some of my clients that would run on a Mac. So I am VERY Excited about this product. Of course I think I need to wait a little longer till the product is a little more solid before I would let it loose onto my clients, but it looks very promising. I had used CenterStage a bit as well and from what I understand there is some sort of merger going on?

I am curious if there are any other professional AV guys out there who are looking at Plex as a serious solution for creating media servers and distributed video throughout a house, or if someone is already doing so and has any comments.

My own system at home runs off a Mac Mini using Front Row which I found to be simple and minimalist, very Apple like, but a little clunky specially if your library consists of downloaded movies, home movies, etc.

I have some first impressions that perhaps I will post to the forum.

Thank you.

We’d love to hear more about your experience, since as a first time user your first impressions are very valuable. Please feel free to stop by the forums and say hello and give us some feedback.

The uninstall is a bit tricky; if you configure the Remote to be always running (which it isn’t by default), there’s no trivial way for the helper to notice that the application has been uninstalled (i.e. deleted) and remove itself.

After reading Macworld’s article I tested Plex. It is a good piece of software, containing many bugs (well, nothing strange for a beta release). But i’s good and a nice alternative to Front Row. I apreciated the fine UI and many other improvements.

One of many bugs : Plex is unable of reading my .wmv files.

I faced a big problem : when uninstalling, my Apple Remote did not work anymore from the Finder (for launching Front Row, for example). I had to re-install, disable the Apple Remote from Plex and uninstall Plex again. This is a mess.

Well, I’ll test Plex again when ameliorated.

Plex is good job.

Is there a slight possibility to have a scan available here (with the editor’s permission?)