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Amazon Prime Video App Launches on Apple TV (slashdot.org)

Posted by msmash on from the burying-the-hatchet dept.

Six months after Apple chief executive Tim Cook said Amazon's Prime Video service would be coming to Apple TV, the much anticipated on-demand video streaming service has arrived on tvOS. Similar to other versions of Amazon Prime Video, the Apple TV app allows Prime subscribers to sign into their accounts and watch Amazon Prime exclusive TV series, as well as browse a collection of movies.

92 comments

  1. Roku in Canada by smallmj · · Score: 2

    And yet we still can't watch Amazon Prime Video on the Roku in Canada, even though the service launched about a year ago.

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    1. Re:Roku in Canada by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

      Are you sure this does not mean that "Amazon Prime Video" comes to the tvOS as long as you are located in Mountain View CA?

      But we are not missing much anyway. Amazon Prime Video in Canada has about four things on it and their entire (very small catalog) is in CATRS (Compressed All To Rat Shit) video with 4 kb/s MP3 sound -- suitable for a 5" Monochrome CRT with a single 2" tinny speaker like used to be in "one transistor radio's" when they first came out, and not much beyond that.

      Even if Amazon paid me to watch "Amazon Prime Video" in Canada, I don't think I would do so (unless a lot of money were on offer).

    2. Re:Roku in Canada by Dare978Devil · · Score: 3, Informative

      Interesting. Am in Canada, and I think Prime is great. Recent shows I have watched; Bosch, Mr. Robot, American Gods, Night Manager, Man in High Castle, and Preacher. All great shows, and none looked CATRS.

    3. Re:Roku in Canada by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We were excited about the announcement several months ago, but that soon vanished, their show offers in Canada are dismal. Three months ago we even cancelled Netflix after years of loyalty for the same reason.

      Back to our OTA TV, Tablo OTA PVR, and torrents!

    4. Re:Roku in Canada by Xciton · · Score: 1

      Yup. Amazon prime in Canada is lack-luster. Time to re-think my subscription. It's as it they don't want me to watch their video service.

  2. Oh boy... by GrandCow · · Score: 0

    An article about Apple that has literally no negative connotations. .

    Even though it'll be hard to twist this post into an anti-Apple argument, vigilant posters will find a way.

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    1. Re:Oh boy... by mccalli · · Score: 5, Informative

      But...using two devices to get to your films is a pain. I have iTunes-bought stuff, I have a Fire stick, and I have ripped stuff. I just wanted one device to access all three - previously couldn't get that, now I can.

    2. Re:Oh boy... by cirby · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Apple has sold something like 25 million AppleTVs.

      Odds are pretty good that a lot of those people have Amazon Prime, too.

    3. Re:Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hooray!!! A preemptive attack on people who rightly think apple is a shit stain of a company. How courageous.

    4. Re: Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hurray an anonymous post calling out Apple as a shit stained company. You are truly courageous.

    5. Re:Oh boy... by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      Here's a negative comment about this: how about those of us who bought an early version of the Apple TV?

      Where's the Amazon app for the 2nd and 3rd-generation Apple TV?

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    6. Re:Oh boy... by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      Not all those 25 million units run tvOS, only the latest model.

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    7. Re:Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well i think you know apples answer to that.

    8. Re: Oh boy... by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1

      Here, have a non-anonymous post identifying Apple as a shit stained marketing operation.

    9. Re:Oh boy... by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      https://twitter.com/jh32488/st...

      “Amazon is coming to the TV app and all Apple TVs later this year with Amazon Prime Video” - @tim_cook tick tock guys it’s December cc:@amazon

      Let's just assume he meant "except the first generation, of course"...

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    10. Re:Oh boy... by phayes · · Score: 1

      Apple has still sold a few million of the latest ATV and there are people like me who have been weighing buying one to consolidate all my (Apple centric) media on one device instead of using less elegant all in one solutions or multiple boxes.

      With the ATV now supporting 4K, every service I am interested in and not botching the HDR anymore, it becomes a much more compelling option.

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    11. Re:Oh boy... by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      You definitely should. Paying $200 for Apple to track you is well worth it. And next year when the next model comes out you can repeat.

    12. Re: Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The pain that is iTunes... for Apple TV?

      That hasn't been a thing for like 3 years.

    13. Re: Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Latest (two) models, which spans the last two years.

      Fixed it for you.

    14. Re:Oh boy... by Dare978Devil · · Score: 1

      Yep, XB1 for me. More expensive than AppleTV, but games!

    15. Re:Oh boy... by Dare978Devil · · Score: 1

      Maybe, never saw the need for an Apple TV myself. PS4 does everything it can do, including with HDR, Netflix, Prime, etc. plus many things it cannot, like games (obviously), but also bluray, DVD, and VR. With only 100 dollars difference in the price, it was no competition.

    16. Re:Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      An article about Apple that has literally no negative connotations. . Even though it'll be hard to twist this post into an anti-Apple argument, vigilant posters will find a way.

      You do know that Apple TV turns you gay, and is part of a gay conspiracy didn't you?

    17. Re:Oh boy... by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      Here's one thing the Apple TV can do that a game console cannot:
      https://www.extremetech.com/wp...

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    18. Re:Oh boy... by d3bruts1d · · Score: 1

      While the PS4 is good (maybe even great) at those things, it lacks the simplicity that the Apple TV offers. My wife and kids (4 & 6) have no issues navigating the UI on the Apple TV, switching profiles, etc. Things get a bit more complicated with the PS4, and lord help them if I left a game running. If it was just me, I would not have the need for the Apple TV.

    19. Re:Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And the 1st generation Apple TV! And the Newton! And the Pippin!

    20. Re:Oh boy... by SuperKendall · · Score: 2

      Most people who have Amazon Prime probably access the content using an Amazon device like FireTV.

      Who wants yet another device and remote? I would say some do, but MOST?

      It's a great little device and is priced a LOT lower than Apple TV.

      It has also fewer and less interesting apps than the AppleTV has.

      Plus, you don't have to go through the pain that is iTunes.

      Which is not a thing on the AppleTV either.

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    21. Re:Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But what if your home is cold, eh? You NEED that heat.

    22. Re:Oh boy... by jedidiah · · Score: 1

      You know it's truly sad when all an Apple fanboy has left is the "power draw" argument.

      Without being tied to the Apple walled garden I can pretty much use any device on the market for streaming. Apple is kind of last to the party here.

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    23. Re:Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Movies Anywhere lets you take your iTunes/Google/Amazon/Vudu content to any service, or just use the Movies Anywhere app itself. This allows iTunes (and Google Play) purchases to show up on the Fire TV.

    24. Re:Oh boy... by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      That graph is only of interest to residents of Hawaii. Electricity in the USA is priced in a way that doesn't make it at all surprising that they have one of the largest energy uses per household in the world.

    25. Re:Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      LOL at the irony
      (from another AC moron).

    26. Re: Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Given that you're not posting as an AC you should have done better.

    27. Re: Oh boy... by jedidiah · · Score: 1

      Here, have another non-anonymous post identifying Apple as a shit stained marketing operation.

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    28. Re:Oh boy... by phayes · · Score: 1

      I have a BlueRay on my ISP's media box so no need for another. I haven't had a game console since the original Xbox as I found out long long ago that immersive games just made me nauseous (&VR is worse), so that's $100 too much.

      Afaik, Airplay only works on the PS4 through Universal Media Streamer, a _Java_ app with imperfect Airplay support. My ISP's media box already has imperfect airplay support so again not at all what I'm looking for.

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    29. Re:Oh boy... by phayes · · Score: 1

      But for the hundreds of millions that _are_ in the walled garden and appreciate not having to waste time twiddling to make X work with Y, the ATV is now a compelling option.

      You know, blowing off power draw as an advantage makes you look like a Trump voting, Coal Rolling American. After changing every lightbulb in the house, I'm NOT going to buy the game console that brings nothing I want compared to the ATV with conspicuously more heat & noise.

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    30. Re:Oh boy... by phayes · · Score: 1

      Really? People in California _didn't_ have brown-outs a few years ago & Puerto-Rico _isn't_ in the U.S.A.?

      Many people in the U.S.A. _do_ care about limiting their use of electricity.

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    31. Re:Oh boy... by phayes · · Score: 1

      Snort, You an android user by any chance?

      It's funny how those who have accepted certain evils (ex: Android user tracking by Google) like to accuse those (like Apple) who don't do that. I suppose that when one beats ones wife, one thinks that everyone must beat their wives too.

      I don't have an ATV. Waiting to see if my ISP's new media box that should be coming out soon does everything I want. If I decide to buy an ATV it'll be knowing that it does what I want when I buy it.

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    32. Re:Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The 4th (2015) and 5th (2017) generation Apple TVs run tvOS. Regardless, Apple is pushing an update with Prime Video even to 3rd gen Apple TVs (2012).

    33. Re: Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Right there on the App Store (link in article header above) it says it requires Apple TV 3rd Generation or newer.

    34. Re: Oh boy... by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      Except there's no app store for the 3rd generation Apple TV, so you can't know that from the Apple TV itself.

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    35. Re: Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There's a disconnect here. The 3rd gen AppleTV doesn't have the App Store. The 3rd gen was introduced in 2012, and discontinued over a year ago. It's a modest revision of the 2nd gen - the original small black rectangle.

      The 4th gen (taller black rectangle introduced in 2015) was the first model to run tvOS and have an App Store.

    36. Re:Oh boy... by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      If your home is cold then you should be mining Monero or something!

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    37. Re:Oh boy... by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      I wasn't giving the power draw as an argument for using an Apple TV, I was using that as an argument that using a console for streaming is a waste of power.

      Besides, consoles suck, I prefer my mid-range Windows PC for gaming and yes it requires more power than an Xbox One or a PS4 because it doesn't suck and doesn't require a fucking gamepad with lame thumbsticks.

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    38. Re:Oh boy... by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      I'm Canadian. Electricity prices in the USA make me laugh, the source of electricity generation doubly so.

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    39. Re: Oh boy... by Karlt1 · · Score: 1

      I thought that was typo but every news outlet is saying it will support ATV3. This is excellent news. I bought 3 third gen ATVs for $59 after the 4th was announced.

      I didn't care about the apps available for the 4th gen and I'm running PlexConnect to have a "native" Plex app. The few freely accessible network apps that aren't available for the ATV3 I can get via Plex channels.

    40. Re:Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not all those 25 million units run tvOS, only the latest model.

      Sure. More to the point, that's how many they sold before tvOS was even introduced. So none of those 25 million run tvOS.

    41. Re:Oh boy... by TheFakeTimCook · · Score: 1

      An article about Apple that has literally no negative connotations. .

      Even though it'll be hard to twist this post into an anti-Apple argument, vigilant posters will find a way.

      You mean like This:

      https://apple.slashdot.org/com...

      Or This:

      https://apple.slashdot.org/com...

      or even This:

      https://apple.slashdot.org/com...

      Howabout This?:

      https://apple.slashdot.org/com...

      Or This:

      https://apple.slashdot.org/com...

      Then there's This:

      https://apple.slashdot.org/com... ...and like that (tired of scrolling).

    42. Re:Oh boy... by TheFakeTimCook · · Score: 1

      Here's a negative comment about this: how about those of us who bought an early version of the Apple TV?

      Where's the Amazon app for the 2nd and 3rd-generation Apple TV?

      Well, not 2nd; but apparently they are pushing this out to the 3rd gen Apple TVs.

    43. Re:Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hm I know 4 household (mine included) that watch Amazon Prime video, none have a FireTV or other Amazon device. A couple Roku, Xbox, Playstation. Not sure about "most"... would be curious to see the numbers of FireTV or other Amazon devices sold vs. Amazon video users.

    44. Re: Oh boy... by UnknowingFool · · Score: 1

      I suppose you know it when the app just shows up on your Apple TV

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    45. Re:Oh boy... by grub · · Score: 1

      If you have (ahem) backed up your own legally owned DVD and Blurays, check out the app Infuse on both iOS and tvOS. It plays everything we throw at it that is stored on our server. Costs around $15-20 but it the best money you'll spend for that functionality.

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    46. Re:Oh boy... by phayes · · Score: 1

      Thanks for the reference, I'll look it up if I buy an ATV.

      I've got a major Plex installation with a few dozen Tb on a Local Drobo (local only - I don't use Plex subscriptions but I've got a Home Lab with a true Firewall+VPN that gives those I trust access to it). Plex Apps/Web suffices for all accesses to that

      My TV has apps for Plex, Netflix, Amazon Prime but that leaves my ISP's media box and all local programming out in the cold.

      I'd like to move to the single screen + remote that I hope I will be able to get with an ATV.

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    47. Re:Oh boy... by grub · · Score: 1

      We're almost at the single screen-remote you speak of on our AppleTV; major networks news apps, YouTube, Netflix, Tablo (see below), etc. I can't get my girlfriend to get rid of cable TV yet, though we're down to the basic $25 cheap package. All the stuff she watches we can see on HD OTA or I can auto-download via Sonarr, but she can't seem to completely untether herself.

      We have an antenna on the roof (with 5 local HD channels). Recently picked up one of those Tablo devices that are gaining in popularity. It now records any shows she wants from OTA and can play live or recorded TV to the AppleTV via a decent app with a guide and everything.

      I only have ~15 TB of stuff on a NAS4Free box. We should trade... :)

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    48. Re:Oh boy... by phayes · · Score: 1

      I'm living in France so our needs do diverge somewhat.

      For OTA, my wife still uses my ISP's media box but the remote is long dead so we need to use an old ipad because HDMI CEC doesn't turn the media box on half the time.

      The ATV HDMI CEC is much better from what I've heard so turning on the ATV when turning on the TV, using the TV's remote & then having the TV turn off the ATV should work fine.

      There is a free app for both my TV & the ATV that has all the french TV channels, but changing channels sets it back to SDTV for a few seconds & there is no way to set the desired language on shows that are broadcast in more than just French.

      With our ISP's media box one can use VLC to watch TV (it uses the same video feed as the multimedia box) and one can select among the different audio tracks available.

      On the ATV there is another app that works just like VLC so I'd finally have a single screen/remote...

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    49. Re:Oh boy... by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      Now I do have the answer: the app installed itself later that morning. From what I've read it's only for the 3rd generation Apple TV, though.

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    50. Re:Oh boy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks for the summary numbnuts.

    51. Re:Oh boy... by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      No they don't. The word you are looking for is "few". If it as infact "many" then the USA wouldn't hold that dubious title it holds.

      People care about complaining to the government that their power is unreliable and that energy saving bulbs contain teh mercuries.

    52. Re:Oh boy... by phayes · · Score: 1

      Unless you can point to something more serious than "I think that", no. As you're making the claim that "only a few" people in the U.S. care about limiting their use of electricity, prove it.

      > I can point to the cited areas where limiting ones use of electricity brings concrete benefits and the sales figures of LED light fixtures.

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    53. Re:Oh boy... by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Energy consumption speaks for itself. Consumption per household is directly correlated to the amount of electricity consumed per household in most countries.

      I'm not going to point to anything, you can look up the well known fact that USA households are incredibly wasteful yourself. But I'm willing to listen if you have some kind of psychological explanation to how the USA gets that wasteful if what you think is actually the case, ... you know kind of like the massive increase in large car sales as a result of the dropping oil price in the last 2 years. I'm keen to see if you can point to an example of most people on the whole not selflessly exploiting their available opportunities, specifically cheap electricity and cheap oil. The wealth of USA statics on the matter currently speaks against it.

    54. Re:Oh boy... by phayes · · Score: 1

      So, when asked to produce references to support your position, you give none & double down on "I think that"...

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    55. Re:Oh boy... by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Nope. I'm doubling down on not arguing with religious extremists. I will provide a cite, you'll reference some small thing you don't like about it, I'll provide another one you'll rinse and repeat because you have formed an opinion and will defend it to the end.

      The only way you will change your mind is if you research it yourself and come up with the conclusions yourself. Even then you will likely defend your original opinion in public because that's what stubborn humans do.

      What I think is not relevant to you. I put forward a clear and testable logic that can be checked with the most simple of correlations. Rather than argue about the source and quality of data you can fill in the blanks yourself. Don't expect everything to be fed to you just so you can continue an argument.

  3. OMG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Thats so amazing. apple is making a TV. I heard its 720p and starts at $2300 and is made with apple patented rounded corners. I cant wait to order one. I can get rid of my current 4K TV ( who needs all those K's anyways; yuk!) and all my sound equipment ( im sure it wont be compatible). And now i can start telling everyone how terrible all other TV brands are because apple apple apple.

    1. Re:OMG by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1

      I remember the Mac TV. It was a 90's thing. That wobbly old Mac environment on a Tee Vee set for the living room.

      It was a truly sad thing.

    2. Re: OMG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are truly an idiot.

    3. Re:OMG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Please go back to playing games on your XP rig.

    4. Re:OMG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I remember the Mac TV. It was a 90's thing. That wobbly old Mac environment on a Tee Vee set for the living room.

      It was a truly sad thing.

      Gee, you obviously remembered so well that you didn't even check that Wiki link to see that you are wrong, binge shitter.

  4. I'm looking for a site that posts ads as tech news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Anyone know where I can go?

  5. Submit to your corporate overlords by DogDude · · Score: 1

    Apple AND Amazon together? Shit, if we could get Google and Facebook involved, the suckers could give away all of their information while watching TV.

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    1. Re:Submit to your corporate overlords by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      Could you rephrase that in the "Yo dawg" form?
      (especially considering your username)

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    2. Re:Submit to your corporate overlords by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yo dawg, I heard you have money, so we took your money so you could see your money going while you pay for shit with your money and..fuck i give up.

    3. Re:Submit to your corporate overlords by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      When I read about Apple's and Amazon's products and services like this, I always think it's a joke at first, to show something so obviously silly that everyone knows that it's just a parody for how low some people have set the bar. We simply don't care about having nice things anymore, presumably to take away the pain from thinking we can't ever have nice things.

      And invariably, after a little reading, I found out that the horrible idea is real.

      This one has both of tech's greatest disappointers: Apple and Amazon. We took two of today's shittiest product developers who market to people-who-don't-want-to-understand-anything, and made something more stupid than both. Oh, this is going to be good...

      Nope, it's real. They're actually going to offer this to the public, it's a real thing, and chances are that some people are going to buy it. It's like there's a Poe's Law for tech. If you try to think up something absurd, it's hard to tell the difference between your comic idea and an actual product.

  6. Who cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It is an apple TV, its all form over function to extract as much $$$ from their sheep as possible.

  7. Meanwhile, Youtube is leaving my Fire TV Stick by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    The Youtube client on my Fire TV Stick has been popping up a notice saying I won't be able to use it after 1/1. Are they changing APIs to something that requires a newer Android? Anyway, I guess I'll just have to use the client in Kodi, but that's even worse than using the official client.

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    1. Re:Meanwhile, Youtube is leaving my Fire TV Stick by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      https://arstechnica.com/gadget...

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    2. Re:Meanwhile, Youtube is leaving my Fire TV Stick by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      Wow, what a bitch move from Google. Good thing I would already never consider paying them for Youtube.

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    3. Re:Meanwhile, Youtube is leaving my Fire TV Stick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why just Google? Seems like Amazon is being equally dick-ish.

    4. Re:Meanwhile, Youtube is leaving my Fire TV Stick by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      Why just Google? Seems like Amazon is being equally dick-ish.

      Google sells Google devices directly, but doesn't sell Amazon devices. Google wants Amazon to sell Google devices directly, so they won't let them have Youtube on their Android-powered TV device. Like Android, Youtube is paid for by advertising, which means it depends on maximum eyeballs. So explain to me again how Amazon is the bad guy here, or how what Google is doing makes any sense.

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    5. Re: Meanwhile, Youtube is leaving my Fire TV Stick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Amazon operates a marketplace. They're engaging in a pretty obvious anti-competitive strategy by leveraging their marketplace monopoly to push their own products. What if Walmart or Best Buy stopped selling Google products to push their own versions?

      Imagine if Google stopped linking to Amazon products in their search results. That would be pretty unethical. Similar to Amazon refusing to sell Google products in its marketplace, yeah?

    6. Re: Meanwhile, Youtube is leaving my Fire TV Stick by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      Amazon operates a marketplace. They're engaging in a pretty obvious anti-competitive strategy by leveraging their marketplace monopoly to push their own products.

      Google is the gatekeeper to all marketplaces, and they're engaging in a pretty obvious anti-competitive strategy by turning off something that's currently working and which people are using — not for any technical reason, but simply to punish Amazon for choosing not to carry their products. And as the keepers of the operating system that Amazon is using on the device, they are in a unique position to abuse their myriad advantages.

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    7. Re:Meanwhile, Youtube is leaving my Fire TV Stick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why just Google? Seems like Amazon is being equally dick-ish.

      Gee, Amazon refuses to sell the Apple TV, and this is a story about Apple allowing Amazon Prime on that device.

      IOW the only one who is not a dick of these three is Apple.

  8. Not on Previous AppleTV, though. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There are a bazillion older AppleTVs that will not handle Amazon Prime directly. It's marketing, I know, but I have three of these devices that otherwise work fine. Just watched a couple episodes of Prime last night via iPad to AppleTV.

    This situation actually discourages me from by future AppleTVs.

  9. Amazon does shit programming on their service. by pecosdave · · Score: 1

    They've got a reasonable catalog but their game-console software is clunky, statically sized, a pain to navigate, truncates descriptions, and is slow. I'll stay on Netflix and Hulu when I can. Hulu has gone from a passable interface to very sleek and usable in the past few months, they used to be in my "sure, if you want to" category to right there next to Netflix. I was extremely happy they stopped trying to cram "clips" down my throat every time I wanted to search for full version of anything.

    I use Amazon on both the PS3 and the Wii. The PS3 obviously is better but damn, all I want to do is watch the Tick and get out. The fact they use bait and dump tactics with Prime programming and make it difficult to just look at certain types of selections (for instance I don't want TV shows shoved at me non-stop while looking for movies) and the search function sucks-ass.

    For what Amazon does right they sure do screw up their streaming.

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    1. Re:Amazon does shit programming on their service. by ausekilis · · Score: 1

      Hulu on a PS3 is actually really awesome. It's a similar interface on the Fire, though it's odd that Hulu says "press the + button to add to your list", when there's no '+' button on a fire stick.

    2. Re:Amazon does shit programming on their service. by swb · · Score: 1

      Both Amazon and Netflix have long crippled their search/sort features to mask how small and craptastic their catalogs are. Amazon on most platforms is slightly deceptive by including pay offerings in searches where you thought you were looking at prime content, but this is mostly because they also haven't sorted out a consistent user interface across platforms.

      On the PC, Amazon Prime Video is too much like the store's interface. On embedded platforms (DVD, smart TV, etc) it's more Netflix-like but still weird and hard to navigate. I'm inclined to give them a slight pass as the embedded platforms are probably a nightmare to code for and they need to cram in both Prime browsing and pay per view functionality (which I have used a couple of times).

    3. Re:Amazon does shit programming on their service. by pecosdave · · Score: 1

      I did get a nice, unexpected treat out of Amazon recently:

      I bought A Christmas Story several years ago on Amazon digital. With the recent "Movies Everywhere" thing happening where Keychest and UltraViolet have basically merged under one roof my Amazon purchase suddenly appeared in my merged library. Not everything I've bought digitally on Amazon is there, I bought some lame Grumpy Cat Christmas movie for $1 last year and it isn't in the Movies Anywhere library.

      I guess it's pretty obvious I do most of my digital only movie buying over the Christmas holiday....

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  10. Re:I'm looking for a site that posts ads as tech n by MikeDataLink · · Score: 1

    Anyone know where I can go?

    http://www.foxnews.com/tech.ht...

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  11. Re: Meanwhile, Youtube is leaving my Fire TV Stic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Also, Google isn't trying to force Amazon to directly sell anything. Amazon won't even let Google or any other supplier list Google products in their marketplace. Amazon's reasoning? It would be too confusing to the consumer for them to allow Google products to be sold through their marketplace. And I'm pretty sure everyone knows what a line of BS that is.

  12. Hope that Spotify is next by Camembert · · Score: 1

    There is still no Spotify app on Apple TV - some indications that they are working on it, but nothing materialised. In principle I can use my iphone and ipad and stream the music through the apple tv to my hifi, but it would be elegant to have a dedicated app. Hope we'll see it one day.

  13. There are issueas by bn-7bc · · Score: 1

    The tvOS app has an issue wit playing surround sound, It onlu comes out as sterio, amazon are avare of it and according to costumer service are working on it. As a temorary fix they have removed the 5.1 tag om all media in the app I contacted them to call theier bluff here is what i got back "Please be assured, the tags are being removed temporarily. The issue will be fixed as soon as possible"