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Amazon Instant Video has a sort of an annual subscription fee option: if you sign up for Amazon Prime you can watch many videos for "free". Since some who sign
by benatkin 15y ago
Amazon Instant Video has a sort of an annual subscription fee option: if you sign up for Amazon Prime you can watch many videos for "free". Since some who sign up for Prime wouldn't sign up if not for the Prime Instant Videos, it is being used as a video subscription service.
The thing you're talking about is quite comparable to the iTunes Store. Most, if not all, of the videos that are free with Prime Instant Videos can also be rented one at a time by people who aren't Amazon Prime members.
I also think paying for rentals one at a time makes more sense for watching movies.
- maxerickson 15y agoIt really depends on the prices. $0.50 a viewing would be great, but I wouldn't take it over $10 a year for access to the same library.
- hrabago 15y agoThe videos that are accessible for free for Prime members are really a small subset, and it's very difficult to find anything worth watching there. If I'm looking to stream something, I still have better luck with Netflix.
- benatkin 15y agoIt's small, but it's growing. I have bad luck with both Prime and Netflix when I'm trying to pull up something in particular. I can easily find something to watch on either of them.
- dromidas 15y agoI've never found anything on Prime that hasn't been on Netflix... Maybe 10 times now or so I want to watch something on netflix that is dvd only so I go to amazon prime and look to see if they have it and while they typically do, it is not prime eligible.