From https://www.plex.tv/blog/well-do-it-live/ Remember, Plex Live TV and DVR is a Plex Pass only feature, and is immediately available for Plex Pass users. You can find out more info about Plex Live TV and DVR here as well.
>You add folders to a TV and Movies collection once. With Kodi, you're doing it N times, where N is the number of Kodi installs in your house.
Never had any success in Plex detecting all my content properly. It's a luck of the draw if you want your content tagged appropriately. I use a MySQL database to store my media library, all I need to do is point Kodi in that direction and everything is synchronized.
> As others have stated, this is not the case. My Plex server is an old Core2Duo MacBook Pro that also runs virtual machines.
You all must have a small media library
Apologies, but it didn't seem like you were talking about that single feature when you said "you need to pay for the service".
> all I need to do is point Kodi in that direction
Which is great, but again, with Plex you don't even need to point. It just finds the server on the network.
> Never had any success in Plex detecting all my content properly
That's definitely annoying. But I built a Plex Channel for my downloads, and it names files according to what Plex expects.
> You all must have a small media library
~4TB of networked storage, but yeah, maybe that's small?
But be a good person and pay for PlexPass.
No, you don't. Source: I've had an account for years and am not paying anything.
> it's a PIA to setup and configure.
You add folders to a TV and Movies collection once. With Kodi, you're doing it N times, where N is the number of Kodi installs in your house.
> Once configured, don't plan on using the computer you setup the Media server on as it is always busy/ bogged down scanning files and transcoding video
As others have stated, this is not the case. My Plex server is an old Core2Duo MacBook Pro that also runs virtual machines.