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Amazon Will Offer Prime Video At Half-Price In All New Markets For Six More Months (ndtv.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Amazon is leaving no stones unturned with its Prime Video, which it expanded to over 200 international markets last December. For the last six months, the company has been offering Prime Video, the sticker price of which is $5.99 or 5.99 Euro a month, at $2.99 or 2.99 Euro as part of its "introductory offer". That introductory offer will now be valid till the end of the year, the company said. In comparison, Netflix charges over $9 every month. According to estimates from last year, Amazon Prime Video has four times as many films available for streaming.
Just looked at Amazon's pricing schedule. $8.99 for Prime Video; $10.99/month; $99/year. So, no, for most of us, this deal doesn't apply.
Chaos maximizes locally around me.
Unfortunately, Amazon still require Android users to sideload the Prime Video app, rather than installing it via Google Play.
Until that's fixed, I won't use Amazon Prime Video. It's a pity â" I'd love to use it with my Chromecast, which has become my primary TV- and movie-watching device.
When they say X period cheaper, I never look at that amount. Even if it is free. The price I am going to pay is what I will pay afterwards.
The fact that they might give me an initial promotion is nice, but will not influence my decision.
Unfortunately a LOT of people look at only that. That is why so many people take a "free sample" and not read that unless they unsubscribe, they need to pay XUSD per month.
It is a well known fact that people will be happy if they can buy something at 50% off, regardless if they need it and if the 50% represents the real value the item is worth. They claim to have saved 50%. Nom you did not. You spend that 50%.
And even now I am sure people are already replying to defend the fact that they really saves the 50%, because they where intended to take the account anyway. To them I say: You where thinking about it and the temporary promotion made you decide to spend it, I am sure you would not have spend it if that promotion was not done.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Amazon may offer more films for streaming, but you've got to pay. The actual amount of stuff to watch included free with you subscription is dismal compared to Netflix.
Most of my streaming is via Chromecast, which Amazon has chosen to not support well. So even though I have Prime, I almost never watch Amazon videos.
Here's the first one acknowledging that Intellectual Poverty ain't worth much.
Desperate capitalism, in its eternal quest for exponential growth (we wanna n% (for n around 2..10) annual interest) realizes that physical world is nearly exhausted, flees to "intellectual" world and tries to establish "property" there...
Just forgetting (or rather suppressing) this nagging feeling that this is just a metaphor. Lo and behold -- discover that those enormous masses of "content" can only be sold if there are consumers (a) willing to swallow all that crap and (b) capable of paying for it.
But in the meantime more and more stuff gets automated, meaning that (b) above ain't going to...
So watch those staunch capitalists [1] mumbling about basic income. The state has to dole out all that money to support our "consumer society", utterly depending on mass production and economy of scale.
But what is the state to do? Taxing said capitalists is a no-no. Printing money... well, we know how *that* turns out (basically yes, that's what they are doing, their hand forced by those casinos which are the banks, the capital markets and derivatives: what else is "quantitative easing"?).
We're going to have a lot of fun, I guess. I hope we have more fantasy now than we had last time around (industrial revolution leading to WW1, 2).
I'm really tired of Amazon advertising its shitty shows in front of its good shows. No, that show is shit, so I am not part of the target demographic.
If I were choosing one service, between Amazon and Netflix, I would choose Netflix just because of the ads on Amazon Prime.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Using discounted vouchers on ebay. Or the free offers that come up from time to time. I think I've paid 3 quid a month at most for the entertainment package on average.
Half a price for zero content. Sounds like a very good deal.
There is absolutely no known movies or series on Prime video.
> In India, Prime membership continues to be at Rs. 499 per year.
That's less than a dollar per month.
Where I am you can get a total of 225 movies on Amazon (at launch, fuck knows what it is now) what made it even more annoying is that it would list ALL of the movies, and only when you clicked on a movie it would pop and say it was no available in your area. It's like trying to play whack the mole to get something you could watch. Very bloody annoying and time consuming. I remember wanting to watch a series which was "not available in your geographical area" and thought, "fuck it, torrent the damn thing". This is a prime (pun intended) example of someone wanting and willing to pay for something, but then being forced to pirate it because of geoblocking. Suffice to say I canned the subscription, wake me when you stop all the geoblocking crap.
There are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third is statistics.
Pretty much by definition, Netflix has more free content than Amazon.
I used the free trial to have a large item shipped asap but otherwise haven't used it. Though I only order from Amazon like 2-3 times a year. I really don't get why they became popular. I was turned off by their high prices.
I'm going to say Prime probably isn't worth it, but you may find a different answer.
Netflix has more to offer navigation wise. If you use a game console to use both Netflix has designed their interface to where it will work on any resolution - Amazon pretty much hard-coded their interface to 1080 and screw you if you have a problem with it. Even on the old Wii which was not HD their interface is cumbersome but Netflix is always smooth.
Prime is going to have The Tick - that might be worth it in and of itself. I started watching Robotech on Netflix and then I found that Prime had a remastered/restored version that looked nicer so I switched to watching it there, though the non-restored Netflix version filled my SD screen better.
Overall the selection on Netflix and the usability, especially if you're like me on an SD screen just topples Prime if that's all you're using it for is movies. It may vary in your country. The shipping savings however more than justify Prime for me, I see the video service as a bonus, not a reason.
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Amazon Prime Video has four times as many films available for streaming.
Which doesn't matter if you have a new LG or Samsung Smart TV in which Amazon Streaming no longer works... https://www.amazon.com/forum/a...