{"id":763091,"date":"2026-07-14T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763091\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:15:09","slug":"plex-problems-prevented-users-from-streaming-movies-and-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763091\/","title":{"rendered":"Plex problems prevented users from streaming movies and shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Plex services experienced some major issues on Tuesday, with multiple users reporting problems on <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.plex.tv\/t\/plex-outage-approx-4-20pm-gmt\/940619\/9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plex\u2019s forums<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PleX\/comments\/1uwbvqo\/plex_services_are_down_71426_1025am_cst\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Reddit<\/a>. Many people use Plex as a way to stream shows and movies they host locally, but users are upset because today\u2019s problems were reportedly affecting their ability to do that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">\u201cBasically all Plex is down unless you can play locally over LAN and even that takes ages and doesn\u2019t always work,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.plex.tv\/t\/plex-outage-approx-4-20pm-gmt\/940619\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said one user<\/a>. Others reported problems with matching content on their servers. For me, the Plex TV website was loading slowly, though while initially writing this story, it started to load more reliably.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Plex had confirmed issues, with the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/status.plex.tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">status page<\/a> originally noting problems with its free streaming movies and shows, the <a href=\"http:\/\/plex.tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plex.tv<\/a> API, Discover Together, and program guide data for live TV. The issues went on about a couple hours. Now, the page says Plex is \u201cfully operational.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The company didn\u2019t immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Update, July 14th: The issues appear to be fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plex services experienced some major issues on Tuesday, with multiple users reporting problems on Plex\u2019s forums and on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8543,7382,172,74],"class_list":["post-763091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apps","tag-streaming","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}