Emby Theatre/Emby Premium

[JP1911 0]

Hi iv just upgraded my emby theatre for Windows and now when I come to play a film etc it is telling me to purchase premium for this feature. Sorry if this has been covered before but is emby no longer free ?

[Deathsquirrel 745]

Hi iv just upgraded my emby theatre for Windows and now when I come to play a film etc it is telling me to purchase premium for this feature. Sorry if this has been covered before but is emby no longer free ?

 

The old ET app is still free and is still available.  This new one requires premium for media playback at this time.

[JP1911 0]

Thanks just didn't realise , where's the old version please ?

[blade005 185]

Thanks just didn't realise , where's the old version please ?

 

http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/29908-previous-version/

[rich314nj 0]

Why should I need to pay for premium service in order to play my local content stored on my local home network?  I could understand paying for the premium to gain access to my content when I'm mobile but to play content stored locally.  REALLY!?

 

Oh, and I love the message it returns.  If you have Emby Premier, just sign in with Emby Connect or connet to your Emby Server using you local network connection.    I AM CONNECTED TO MY LOCAL NETWORK!

 

Old version can be found:  http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/29908-previous-version/

 

I just stumbled on it in another forum.

[Deathsquirrel 745]

Why should I need to pay for premium service in order to play my local content stored on my local home network?  I could understand paying for the premium to gain access to my content when I'm mobile but to play content stored locally.  REALLY!?

 

You don't have to.  Every OS I know of comes with a media player and codec sets aren't that hard to install.  You don't need Emby to play your media.

 

Emby server is free and will allow you to setup your libraries, setup metadata, playback your media, etc.

 

The only thing costing you any money in this situation is using this specific client which is absolutely in no way required.  There are multiple other options, free and not, to playback your media on every platform that ET supports today and is expected to support in the future.  If you don't like this one, don't buy it.

[Luke 42077]

I've posted an update to the old version that resolves the startup error message:

 

http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/29908-previous-version