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Amazon Splits Prime Video Service To Compete Directly With Netflix (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Starting today, non-Prime members can subscribe to Amazon Prime Video for $8.99 per month. You can cancel any time, you don't have to subscribe to a year upfront. With an Amazon Prime Video subscription, you only get access to Amazon's video library -- no expedited shipping, no music library. When it comes to Amazon Prime, it still costs $99 per year. And yes, it still includes Prime Video. You can also choose to subscribe to Prime for $10.99 per month. You get access to expedited shipping, Prime video, Prime Music, and the Kindle Lending Library. The move is to help the service compete directly against Netflix, Hulu, and other video streaming services. TechCrunch reinforces Amazon's latest move as being in-line with the subscription launchpad they have going with Amazon Prime: "The company can try out new services and see if they work. From day one, these new services will have millions of subscribers. And Amazon certainly spends a lot of time tracking what its users do with these new services."
So now, it might now make more sense to get a month of Prime for $10.99 instead of pay for 2-day shipping on a single order.
Which might be perfect for me. I've had Prime before but I don't order from Amazon enough to care about paying for it by the year. When I do order from them it tends to be many small orders all lumped within a week or two as I gather the parts for some project or other.
And if it comes with some streaming stuff, I guess I'm OK with that, although I've been paying for Netflix for so many years I don't even think about it anymore.
Kid-proof tablet..
What happened to the days of highly functional web interfaces?
User Experience (UX) Engineering.
It doesn't have to function, but it has to have a damn nice drop shadow with rounded edges.
My biggest problem with prime video is that it shows me the free content alongside the paid content with little distinction.. and most of it is paid. I wish I could filter out to only see the free content..