PALAIS

Try Palais

See it for yourself, in two minutes.

A real media server on the internet, filled with classic films that are free to watch. Palais reaches it the same way it reaches your own server when you're away from home, so you see exactly how it looks, starts and plays.

  • No server needed
  • No account, nothing to type
  • Free
Palais on Apple TV showing the demo library: Carnival of Souls framed in gold on the home screen

Three steps

From nothing to the first frame.

  1. 1

    Get Palais

    On your Apple TV, iPhone or iPad.

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  2. 2

    Tap “Try the demo library”

    It's the second door on the welcome screen. Palais connects and signs in by itself.

    The Palais welcome screen on iPhone with two doors: Your Jellyfin server, and Try the demo library
  3. 3

    Press Play

    Then press the remote's touch surface: the gold tags show exactly what is playing.

    Detour playing in Palais on Apple TV, with gold tags for SD, SDR, H.264, Original, Stereo and AAC

Now showing

Seven classic films and a series.

All in the public domain, all free to watch.

Carnival of Souls 1962
Detour 1945
The General 1926
His Girl Friday 1940
The Last Man on Earth 1964
The Little Shop of Horrors 1960
Night of the Living Dead 1968
One Step Beyond (series) 1959

While you're there

Five things to try.

  1. Wait on Home. After a moment the film's own scene fades in inside the gold frame.
  2. Open a film. “More about it” shows the cast, the credits and the picture and sound quality.
  3. Watch a few minutes. Start a film, skip around, and see how quickly it picks up from a server far away.
  4. Switch screens. Stop on the TV and carry on on your iPhone, right where you left off.
  5. Binge a little. Play an episode of One Step Beyond to the end: the next one rolls in by itself.

Prefer to type it in?

Connect by hand

Choose “Your Jellyfin server”, then “Type an address”, and use:

Server
https://demo.palais.tv
Name
guest
Password
palais-demo

Everyone shares this guest account, so you may see where other visitors stopped.

Like what you see? Bring your own films.

Palais plays the library on your own Jellyfin server just like this, at home and away.

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