Amazon: Prime Instant Video - what is it?
With the "Amazon Prime Instant Video" offer, Germany has been enriched by a new film streaming service since February 26th. We introduce you to the video-on-demand service from Amazon and reveal whether "Maxdome" and "Watchever" should fear the competition.
Prime Instant Video - Amazon's new movie streaming service
"Amazon Prime Instant Video" offers you:
- Before you choose Amazon's film streaming service, you may first try the offer for 30 days without obligation.
- The on-demand TV offering is expected to include around 12, 000 films and series. This also includes Amazon's own productions such as "Alpha House" and "Betas". According to Amazon, Amazon wants to significantly expand the range of self-produced series.
- According to Amazon, films are also available in the original version and supposedly even before the first TV broadcast.
- You can watch the videos with almost all end devices, except Apple TV. You may have to choose the detour via "Airplay" to play the films on your TV via iPad or iPhone.
- In the future it should also be possible to download films directly, but for the time being only owners of a Kindle Fire are allowed to do so.
- In future, you will only be able to get DVDs and Blu-Ray discs by mail from the Amazon subsidiary "Lovefilm".
What the Amazon movie streaming fun costs
- First of all, the previous Prime members can be happy that they can use the "Amazon Prime Instant Video" offer completely free of charge until their next renewal.
- From the next renewal, you pay the same price as the new Prime members - that's 49 euros instead of 29 euros per year. Students only pay 24 euros including Amazon Prime.
- The price for the film streaming offer from Amazon is thus significantly below that of the competition "Maxdome" and "Watchever".
- Of course, non-Prime members can also book the offer. "Prime Instant Video" then costs 7.99 euros per month and the "Lovefilm" DVD rental also costs 7.99 euros.
If you are so enthusiastic about the Amazon Prime Instant Video offer that you would like to cancel your other subscriptions right away, you can find out how you can do it quickly in the articles "Maxdome: cancel package - how it works" and "cancel Watchever - how it works",