Now with paragraphs.

Do I misunderstand emby or does it just not seem like a good deal on the basis of it being an ongoing subscription?

I use the free version of emby and it's really great. There was at least one feature that required payment to unlock.

I like emby already and when I tried using jellyfin, the core features that were on both it and the free version of emby worked far less reliably and the paid feature on emby that was free on Jellyfin, worked extremely unreliably.

Obviously resources and development had been spent to make something that worked very well and their paid feature probably would too.

I use emby to make it easier to cast media locally to my chromecast and to access media on my computer, from my phone in my bedroom, so for me, it's a fancy file browser and media player.

The feature I wanted was to do with free to air tv streaming and I was thinking I'd be happy to pay for the Emby software to unlock this since they made good software that works. But here's the thing, it's FREE to air TV and yet they want me to pay, ongoing, in a perpetual arrangement to use it. I don't get it.

I use it to play media, but the media is my media stored on my machines. I understand software development isn't free, I was happy to pay ONCE, but why would I keep paying when they don't actually produce the media I use it to play? That seemed unjustifiable.