I purchased it in 2014. It was $75 then. I also pay yearly for Infuse. It's worth it to me. Jellyfin is not equivalent to Plex.

I would be surprised to see anyone arguing for equivalence, although I admit I have not paid close attention to most of the comments in this thread. But Jellyfin's not half bad for free, too, enough so that after seeing it mentioned on HN a year or two ago and spending five minutes to write up a half-assed compose file (and four hours screwing around with systemd's infuriating approach to sshfs automount) so I could try it out, I haven't felt the need to look for more.

Even my most recent ex, who's nearing fifty and has never been especially at home with tech, found nothing objectionable about using it via the iOS native app - with the content of my library, yes, but that's no more fairly blamed on Jellyfin than it would be on Plex.

$120 to have it just work and not have to tinker on something that I’m not curious about is totally worth it. I’d pay twice that to just make the problem go away. Thank you!

Those extra features which aren't worth it to you are worth it to me. It gives me an easy way to share movies with my father and cousin and kids, all in different places these days. It gives me intro skip.

If I didn't care about those things, I wouldn't use a media server at all. I'd just point Infuse at an NFS share.

Besides that, I purchased the lifetime pass in 2014 when I don't think Jellyfin even existed.

FWIW, I've been using Plex for a very long time, since when it was XBMC. I originally ran it on an Xbox.

It just works for me. The only thing that really annoys me about Plex is that it requires an active Internet connection. If my ISP goes down, I can't access my media via Plex. That's just dumb.

Otherwise, I'm happy with it.