Follow-up: For those with children, do you continue the ruse with your own children, or simply tell them it’s you who gives the gifts? Why or why not?

Due to a recently increased upload speed, I can now stream to some of my users 4K content from my Plex server. However, I do not have infinite hard drive space, so I would, at least initially, prefer to limit my 4K collection to films and TV show shows that actually benefit from it.

Personally, and with several of my friends, we’ve come to the agreement that 4K video has about as much advantage as 720 versus 1080. It’s not that big of a leap, and often not entirely worth the upgrade (when accounting for the hard drive space consideration, the added darkness, etc). However, with some films and TV shows, it really does make a huge difference.

With that in mind, what films and TV shows would you recommend that definitely benefit from 4K viewing?

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Remember the guy who tried to take a video camera into that Idaho courtroom, only to get tazed by the now-infamous bailiff P. Barnes? His name was Robert William Peterson, and I figured that it wouldn’t be too hard to find info on a guy like that in such a lifeless state as Idaho. I was right.

One of the first results on googling his name was this gem. Apparently, he was arrested a month ago for outstanding warrants for what was probably more sovcit bullshit…while being released from another jail in neighboring Washington:

BETA - Version 1.40.5.8761

Platform: ALL

New

• (Log) Reduced the number of log messages generated when starting playback on an NVIDIA device. (PM-1417) (Windows) noautorestart command line parameter added which prevents PMS from restarting after an auto update (PM-1305)

Fixes

• (View State Sync) Item plays could be duplicated when state synced from service.
• (Windows 64bit) Not all files were removed on uninstall (PM-1632)

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PUBLIC - Version 1.64.0

Platform: macOS/Linux/Win

Fixes

• Fixed broken watchlist functionality for AVOD items in Continue Watching
• [Discover Together] Fix social proof button overlapping comments in the activity details screen
• [Discover Together] Fixed missing comment indicator in the pre-play activity feed
• [Discover Together] Fixed rating activity card increasing size after hitting back
• [Search] Fix filters not resetting after clearing the query

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PUBLIC - Version 5.85.0

Platform: Samsung 2016 to 2023 Televisions (Tizen 2.4, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 7.0)

New

Fixes

• Fixed broken watchlist functionality for AVOD items in Continue Watching
• [Discover Together] Fix social proof button overlapping comments in the activity details screen
• [Discover Together] Fixed missing comment indicator in the pre-play activity feed
• [Discover Together] Fixed rating activity card increasing size after hitting back
• [Search] Fix filters not resetting after clearing the query

PUBLIC - Version 2.141.0 (client v5.85.0)

Platform: Xbox

Plex for Xbox v2.141.0 (client v5.85.0) is now rolling out to users

New

Fixes

• Fixed broken watchlist functionality for AVOD items in Continue Watching
• [Discover Together] Fix social proof button overlapping comments in the activity details screen
• [Discover Together] Fixed missing comment indicator in the pre-play activity feed
• [Discover Together] Fixed rating activity card increasing size after hitting back
• [Search] Fix filters not resetting after clearing the query

PUBLIC - Version 5.85.0

Platform: PlayStation 4/5

Fixes

• Fixed broken watchlist functionality for AVOD items in Continue Watching
• [Discover Together] Fix social proof button overlapping comments in the activity details screen
• [Discover Together] Fixed missing comment indicator in the pre-play activity feed
• [Discover Together] Fixed rating activity card increasing size after hitting back
• [Search] Fix filters not resetting after clearing the query

PUBLIC - Version 5.85.0

Platform: LG webOS 3.0+

New

Fixes

• Fixed broken watchlist functionality for AVOD items in Continue Watching
• [Discover Together] Fix social proof button overlapping comments in the activity details screen
• [Discover Together] Fixed missing comment indicator in the pre-play activity feed
• [Discover Together] Fixed rating activity card increasing size after hitting back
• [Search] Fix filters not resetting after clearing the query

Plex for VIZIO SmartCast - Version 5.85.0

Platform: VIZIO SmartCast

Fixes

• Fixed broken watchlist functionality for AVOD items in Continue Watching
• [Discover Together] Fix social proof button overlapping comments in the activity details screen
• [Discover Together] Fixed missing comment indicator in the pre-play activity feed
• [Discover Together] Fixed rating activity card increasing size after hitting back
• [Search] Fix filters not resetting after clearing the query

Plex fo VIDAA (Hisense) - Version 5.85.0

Platform: VIDAA/Hisense - Hisense models (in United States and Europe) running the U4 and later system software

Fixes

• Fixed broken watchlist functionality for AVOD items in Continue Watching
• [Discover Together] Fix social proof button overlapping comments in the activity details screen
• [Discover Together] Fixed missing comment indicator in the pre-play activity feed
• [Discover Together] Fixed rating activity card increasing size after hitting back

BETA - Version 1.40.4.8626

Platform: macOS/Linux/Win

Plex Media Server 1.40.4.8626 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

New

• (Metadata) Add support for additional TVDB episode orderings on TV Show preferences. Requires metadata refresh. (PM-1533)
• (Web) Updated to 4.132.2

Fixes

• (Library) Multi-episode files will only retain one of the episodes (PM-1603)
• (Live-TV) Tuning slots were not properly released if the tune was canceled during startup, such as what happens when rapidly changing channels. (PM-688)
• (Scanner) Removed deprecated support for modern metadata agent scan/refresh via Scanner cli (PM-1555)
• (Scanner) Scanner would not ignore #snapshot/s directories (PM-1450)
• (Scanner) Scanner would not ignore @eaDir copy directories (PM-1396)
• (Serialization) The viewUpdatedAt field would not be included when requested (PM-1562)
• (Transcoder) Corrected quality parameter for devices without rate control. (#14885)
• (Transcoder) Windows would fail to HW transcode after an RDP session is started or ended. (#14926)
• (WD OS5) Installation would fail on the WD OS5 platform. (PM-1640)

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