Following $40 million in funding earlier this year, streaming media company Plex on Wednesday rolled out new TV show and movie review features, putting its app in more direct competition with other apps like Letterboxd and TV Time. announced that it would be exposed to This feature also includes a social networking element, allowing you to share reviews with your friends and friends of friends on Plex.
The company entered the social networking space last year with the launch of its new “Discover Together” feature, allowing users to create a profile on the app and find and follow friends to discover newsreels and shows together. . Discover Together allows users to share with friends what they're watching, what they're bookmarking, rating content, and more. This latest release of movie and TV show reviews builds on the existing framework and makes Plex a streaming community, not just a streaming hub.
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Plex says that initially, users' reviews will only be shared within their own network of friends, but they are working on an update that will allow users to share their ratings and reviews with anyone on the service. The company is currently recruiting beta testers for this feature.
Users will need a verified email address to access the new feature, but can then write a review from the web interface or mobile app. To review items in the Personal Media library, users must enable the Clock Status and Rating Sync feature, Plex notes. Reviews must also follow Plex's existing community guidelines.
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Additionally, Plex users will be able to control the reviews that appear on movie and show detail pages by accessing a new Ratings & Reviews option in their account settings. From here, users can choose to display reviews from Plex users and critics, only users, only critics, or no reviews from anyone.
Plex users' existing privacy settings are also saved. This is an area where Plex has run into problems before, as Discover Together is opt-out rather than opt-in, leading to users revealing their embarrassing viewing habits to their friends. And family.