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Amazon Instant Video is available on Sony TVs running Android TVs, but Amazon disables the app from working on non-Sony TVs: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/

• azakai 11y ago
  Are you saying that the article is wrong when it says that Amazon video worked, but poorly, on non-Sony TVs?
  • yohui 11y ago
    Are we referring to the same article? The Android Police article linked above reports that Amazon blocked users who tried to run the app on non-Sony TVs: > But now it doesn't work. "License Error" codes have started showing up when running the Instant Video app on the Nexus Player, presumably because someone at Amazon saw that it was running on non-blessed hardware and shut it down.
    • azakai 11y ago
      I meant the original article this entire discussion is about, which says > Amazon’s streaming service, called Prime Video, doesn’t run easily on its rival’s hardware. So it does run, at least according to the article. But it's either hard to make it run, or it doesn't work well. Both of those seem to contradict your link. Very puzzling, I guess one of those must be wrong?
      • yohui 11y ago
        Assuming Bloomberg didn't just fudge the phrasing, they were probably referring to how Amazon Video requires the Amazon Appstore to be installed first: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/splash/sd/t/appstore https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/splash/sd/t/appstore There are no technical or legal barriers preventing Amazon from supporting iOS and Android devices.
        • azakai 11y ago
          Ok, thanks, I was confused by how they phrased it.