Plex is one of the best ways to store and stream all your movies and TV shows around your house or apartment, but movie night is still a bit of drag if you're watching on a dingy old laptop or a small TV. Now you can experience Plex on a giant screen without leaving the couch, thanks to the company's new virtual reality app for Samsung's Gear VR.

Plex and Kodi are two of our favourite home theatre apps, and now you can get both of them together. Plex just announced its new Kodi add-on so you can include your Plex library in Kodi.

Movies and TV shows come and go on Netflix on a regular basis, which means you might be half way through your favourite flick when it gets yanked from the service. The solution? Buy all your own content and set up your own private cloud-based streaming service you can get at from any computer or device.

In its quest to become your go-to service for any all media, Plex has just announced one of its biggest updates yet. Now, you can use the app as a DVR to record TV shows directly to your Plex server.

Plex is one of our favourite ways to stream your media between devices. Sometimes, however, streaming can take a long time depending on what format your media is in. Use Plex's optimise feature to solve this problem ahead of time and get smooth playback anywhere.

Who needs Netflix? With home theatre apps like Plex and Kodi, you can roll your own sweet-looking library with all the TV shows and movies you like, with none of the junk. But which software should you use? Here's how the two biggest solutions stack up against each other.

Good news, Xbox and PlayStation owners: You can now stream your media to your TV from your gaming console with Plex. The app is out of the review stage and is free to use without a Plex Pass subscription.

Windows/Mac: Plex is making a big change to its desktop strategy. The company is now replacing Plex Home Theatre with the new Plex Media Player. It looks pretty great, too.

iOS: Today, the Plex app for iOS gets a big update with a bunch of new features and a new free tier that provides basic functionality.

The Android version of Plex has embraced material design in its latest update.

If you use the Plex media server for your movie and TV library and have ever used the Plex forums, you'll need to change your password this morning. The company announced its forum servers were hacked, leaving email addresses, forum messages and hashed passwords vulnerable.

Plex is a great way to organise your media and stream it between devices wherever you are, and as it happens, co-founder Scott Olechowski applies a similar mindset in his workflow. With a distributed team that collaborates online, Scott and his team take on the development of the app wherever they are. We caught up with Scott to learn a little about his mobile workflow and how is team collaborates across timezones and platforms.

Plex, one of our favourite media centres, is now available for both the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4.

Xbox users can finally take advantage of our favourite media centre, Plex. The app is available today for Xbox One users, and soon for the Xbox 360.

Plex is one of our favourite media centre packages, particularly for its ability to stream movies and TV to any device no matter where you are. Today, its iOS and Android apps are on sale.

There's a lot of nifty things you can do with a second generation Apple TV, but if you've got the third generation model, you're stuck behind a seemingly impenetrable anti-jailbreak wall. Or at least you were.

When you've spent the week getting things done, it's nice to enjoy a little entertainment over the weekend. If you've yet to set up your ultimate home theatre, here's everything you need to know to make it a reality.

Dear Lifehacker, I want to make the perfect home media centre but I've come across a very tough decision: should I use Plex or XBMC? I've heard great things about both platforms, and don't know the main differences. Can you help me decide?

Dear Lifehacker, I have a Windows 8/Plex Media Centre PC that is always on but requires a password every time it is restarted. I don't want to disable the password entirely in case it is stolen but having the password is inconvenient at home because I have to use the keyboard instead of my remote.