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I'll wait until the numbers start to roll in for the outflanking. I'm not convinced that offline is the same killer feature for videos that it is for music. I'd
by bbatha 11y ago
I'll wait until the numbers start to roll in for the outflanking. I'm not convinced that offline is the same killer feature for videos that it is for music. I'd argue that most people streaming movies do it on large format devices which are more likely to be connected to wifi. Amazon's original content compared to Netflix is largely a joke. Most of the shows have extremely low budgets and you can tell. This situation seems to be improving, but Netflix hasn't stagnated either. The UI for amazon devices is also significantly worse than netflix. I have amazon prime for shipping but would rather pay extra to use netflix's ui.
- jon-wood 11y agoOffline support is a huge feature for me, since I have a long train commute twice a week. I do the vast majority of my TV watching during train journeys, my only annoyance on that front is the licenses that Amazon have mean some shows are only downloadable if you've "bought" them. As for UI, I'll concede that the web UI is awful, however the Fire TV is fantastic when you're primarily watching content from Amazon and the same is true with the Kindle Fire tablets. Having said that, the only reason I have a Kindle Fire is because it was super cheap a year or so back, its a great piece of hardware hogtied by Amazon's insistence on using their own fork of Android.