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I had a trial membership for 3 months and it was nice to get a couple of orders super quick but far from worth the annual cost. Spotify beats them in music, Ne

I had a trial membership for 3 months and it was nice to get a couple of orders super quick but far from worth the annual cost. Spotify beats them in music, Netflix beats them in videos and if really need an item on the same day, I can just go to the store. It's also cheaper to pay for shipping once in a while rather than pay for an annual subscription. There is of course something about paying for shipping which makes you feel like a great injustice...

notus 7y ago
Netflix does not beat them in videos. Netflix's library has moved towards very specific titles and original programming done by Netflix. Amazon has still retained a lot of movies in addition to their original programming plus they have plenty of options you can pay for which Netflix doesn't even offer. Amazon Prime has around 18k titles to Netflix's 4k titles.
- quotha 7y ago
  Netflix destroys, eviscerates, demolishes, annihilates them in videos!!!
  - tinus_hn 7y ago
    To shreds you say!
    - quotha 7y ago
      To be fair though "Ronja, the Robber's Daughter" is must-see
  - PasserBy2020 7y ago
    It puts them on their knees and smashes their little skull in videos!
- dragonwriter 7y ago
  > Netflix does not beat them in videos. Whether or not they beat them in videos is very much a matter of subjective preference for the videos one has that the other does not; if someone says they do in explanation of a personal decision, you need unusually personal information to argue that they are incorrect. > Amazon Prime has around 18k titles to Netflix's 4k titles. As most people won't watch a significant fraction of either, the counts are mostly irrelevant in deciding which wins for any individual; what matters most is who has more of the usually very small number of titles for which the individual has a strong preference; everything else ends up being mostly noise in the menus, more likely to be a cost (unless masked by personalization) than a benefit.
  - asark 7y ago
    I almost never use Amazon's streaming because they mix in paid crap with free-with-prime crap so it's hard to browse. Also their UI tends to perform poorly on any given platform, compared with Netflix (I suspect more use of Web frontend tech in Amazon's apps). I'd been meaning to cancel, actually, and this reminded me to. Looks like they already got me for a year a couple months ago, but I've got a reminder set to cancel next time. It's really, really not worth it.
- dllthomas 7y ago
  I don't know how much of it is the recommendation algorithms vs amount of wheat and chaff in that 18k and 4k, but from my experience looking for something new to watch I would easily believe a claim that the additional 14k is all complete crap.
reificator 7y ago
Prime has the things I want to watch much more often than Netflix, and it's how I watched things like Game of Thrones or Ash vs. Evil Dead without needing cable which was nice. I also find their `x-ray` feature to be very valuable. It's not on every movie, and some movies utilize it better than others. But it's really nice when I see an actor and go "Wait a minute, I've seen them before, who is that?" Like Laurence Fishburne in Ant-Man 2, who I knew I recognized but couldn't place because he looks so different now. I also like seeing the trivia and production errors, I assume they're just sourced from IMDB but they're synched up to the current timestamp so they're usually relevant when you see them.
gooseus 7y ago
> Netflix beats them in videos Idk... I feel like good video options are pretty well split between Netflix and Amazon with Amazon Video on the rise and Netflix in decline. Amazon still has random esoteric stuff I want when I look and they picked up The Expanse, which is a huge win. Netflix almost never has what I want if it isn't a Netflix Original, which are becoming increasingly mediocre (looking at you Stranger Things 3). The difference I see is that Netflix has had only one job and they've gotten worse at it while increasing the price. Amazon prices have gotten worse, but they still deliver me any esoteric thing I want in less than a week, and it's usually something I can't get at a local store (usually books, and I live walking distance to Powell's and many other book stores which won't have the title I'm looking for). For me it's a no-brainer, mostly because Amazon has a student prime price of $59/year which I can get as a 37-year-old grad student, but even without that Netflix wants the same amount per month for their basic streaming ($13/mo) as Amazon wants for a full Prime membership, which includes al their video streaming.

notus 7y ago

Netflix does not beat them in videos. Netflix's library has moved towards very specific titles and original programming done by Netflix. Amazon has still retained a lot of movies in addition to their original programming plus they have plenty of options you can pay for which Netflix doesn't even offer. Amazon Prime has around 18k titles to Netflix's 4k titles.

quotha 7y ago
Netflix destroys, eviscerates, demolishes, annihilates them in videos!!!
- tinus_hn 7y ago
  To shreds you say!
  - quotha 7y ago
    To be fair though "Ronja, the Robber's Daughter" is must-see
- PasserBy2020 7y ago
  It puts them on their knees and smashes their little skull in videos!
dragonwriter 7y ago
> Netflix does not beat them in videos. Whether or not they beat them in videos is very much a matter of subjective preference for the videos one has that the other does not; if someone says they do in explanation of a personal decision, you need unusually personal information to argue that they are incorrect. > Amazon Prime has around 18k titles to Netflix's 4k titles. As most people won't watch a significant fraction of either, the counts are mostly irrelevant in deciding which wins for any individual; what matters most is who has more of the usually very small number of titles for which the individual has a strong preference; everything else ends up being mostly noise in the menus, more likely to be a cost (unless masked by personalization) than a benefit.
- asark 7y ago
  I almost never use Amazon's streaming because they mix in paid crap with free-with-prime crap so it's hard to browse. Also their UI tends to perform poorly on any given platform, compared with Netflix (I suspect more use of Web frontend tech in Amazon's apps). I'd been meaning to cancel, actually, and this reminded me to. Looks like they already got me for a year a couple months ago, but I've got a reminder set to cancel next time. It's really, really not worth it.
dllthomas 7y ago
I don't know how much of it is the recommendation algorithms vs amount of wheat and chaff in that 18k and 4k, but from my experience looking for something new to watch I would easily believe a claim that the additional 14k is all complete crap.

reificator 7y ago

Prime has the things I want to watch much more often than Netflix, and it's how I watched things like Game of Thrones or Ash vs. Evil Dead without needing cable which was nice. I also find their `x-ray` feature to be very valuable. It's not on every movie, and some movies utilize it better than others. But it's really nice when I see an actor and go "Wait a minute, I've seen them before, who is that?" Like Laurence Fishburne in Ant-Man 2, who I knew I recognized but couldn't place because he looks so different now. I also like seeing the trivia and production errors, I assume they're just sourced from IMDB but they're synched up to the current timestamp so they're usually relevant when you see them.

gooseus 7y ago

> Netflix beats them in videos Idk... I feel like good video options are pretty well split between Netflix and Amazon with Amazon Video on the rise and Netflix in decline. Amazon still has random esoteric stuff I want when I look and they picked up The Expanse, which is a huge win. Netflix almost never has what I want if it isn't a Netflix Original, which are becoming increasingly mediocre (looking at you Stranger Things 3). The difference I see is that Netflix has had only one job and they've gotten worse at it while increasing the price. Amazon prices have gotten worse, but they still deliver me any esoteric thing I want in less than a week, and it's usually something I can't get at a local store (usually books, and I live walking distance to Powell's and many other book stores which won't have the title I'm looking for). For me it's a no-brainer, mostly because Amazon has a student prime price of $59/year which I can get as a 37-year-old grad student, but even without that Netflix wants the same amount per month for their basic streaming ($13/mo) as Amazon wants for a full Prime membership, which includes al their video streaming.