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Amazon Will Offer Prime Video At Half-Price In All New Markets For Six More Months (ndtv.com)

Posted by msmash on from the money-power dept.

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.

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  1. Not everyone gets this price break by Sooner+Boomer · · Score: 2
    From TFA:

    Taking many by surprise last December, Amazon announced it was making its on-demand streaming service, for which it would typically charge USD 5.99 a month, available in 242 countries and territories at an introductory price of USD 2.99 or EUR 2.99 per month for the first six months.

    • This pricing is only for regions that do not have a Prime subscription service already available.

    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.

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    1. Re: Not everyone gets this price break by Entrope · · Score: 2

      On the other hand, even with all of Amazon Prime bundled in, the one-year subscription is slightly less than a year of Netflix.

      My household has both, mostly because Netflix has more of what we want to watch.

    2. Re:Not everyone gets this price break by GrumpySteen · · Score: 2

      You stopped reading too soon. The very next sentence in TFA:
      "This pricing is only for regions that do not have a Prime subscription service already available."

  2. Meh by LordWabbit2 · · Score: 2

    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.

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  3. Beware LG Smart TV and Amazon Streaming by s1d3track3D · · Score: 2

    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...