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TechRadar Verdict

Amazon Prime Instant has improved a huge amount recently and is actually only just behind Netflix every bit the male monarch of streaming. Only with its focus on advanced tech it'south a great option for the early on adopter.

Pros

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Adept value
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Downloads!
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Better movies than Netflix
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Great for kids

Cons

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Awkward Android
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No monthly subs
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Feels like a shop

For a long time Amazon Prime number Instant Video has played 2nd fiddle to Netflix's streaming behemoth. But, while the tides may not necessarily be turning, there is a parity between the two large video streaming giants that we've not seen before.

Both companies now practice more than just human activity as the eye men between the content makers and the viewer - they are the content makers. Amazon's burgeoning original programming initiative actually started to bear fruit this year with an impressive haul at the Emmys, bagging five awards to Netflix's four.

As well as gaining disquisitional acclaim having such sectional content likewise provides a great driving force for pushing people towards its streaming service.

This year also saw Amazon taking the lead, in technological terms, over Netflix besides, being the showtime consumer service to offer high dynamic range (HDR) content, as well as Ultra HD streams, at no extra cost. Both companies truly are the best Boob tube streaming services around right now.

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How much does Amazon Prime number Instant Video price?

The Instant Video service is all part and parcel of one of the best value bundles in tech - Amazon Prime.

For the $99 (£79) per year subscription cost you lot get the full Amazon Prime Instant Video service, its music-streaming setup every bit well as free commitment on products yous buy, unlimited deject-based photo storage and a whole heap of books on the Kindle store likewise.

That's quite a package, and when Netflix's most basic, non-Hard disk, subscription costs about £72 per yr y'all start to see the value Amazon has pumped into its offering.

You lot are though locked in for a year, then while you can start and stop your Netflix payments on a monthly basis the same tin can't exist said for the Instant Video service.

How can I access Amazon Prime Instant Video?

In that location are multiple ways to go your stream on with Prime. The archetype desktop browser method though is probably the least intuitive.

Accessing information technology via the browser essentially simply takes you lot to a location in Amazon's standard shop pages. Information technology has been improved recently though so that when y'all hit the Prime Video tab it now looks far more similar Netflix's dedicated applications.

Large images now fill the screen, and it also uses a similar side-scrolling method to allow you to drill down further into the different categories or genres information technology displays.

Outside of the desktop are the dedicated Amazon Video apps for either Android, iOS, smart TVs or Amazon's ain Fire products (like the Burn down TV). The Amazon Video app is also at present bachelor across the Roku range too.

Frustratingly the Android implementation requires you to sideload Amazon apps, which does brand it a bit of an awkward feel - especially on Android Telly devices.

These apps are focused on purely the video content, and then you won't discover suggestions of which Television set you lot've been perving over in the store popping up every now and and so.

They're not the nearly aesthetically-pleasing of applications, but perfectly functional. You have access to watchlists, where you tin add shows or movies that you fancy coming back to as you lot browse effectually the substantial content library.

And information technology most definitely is substantial, with rough estimates placing information technology every bit around 18,000 movies and 4,500 Boob tube shows. That gives it a more substantial movie streaming catalogue than Netflix at around eleven,000.

What are Amazon Prime number Instant Video'southward primal features?

The big new feature for Amazon'southward streaming service is the power to download content for watching offline. That's a large tick for the Instant Video service, something that Netflix doesn't, and probably never will, offer.

It's only available on the Fire tablets and phones and iOS and Android apps, but that makes sense for the mobile devices. The entire Amazon library isn't bachelor to download and view offline, but a substantial amount is, including all of its original programming.

Y'all tin can continue the programs offline for a ready period of time, allowing you to watch things on the near when you don't have the mobile data allowance to cope.

Another identify Amazon is offering extra features over Netflix is in the advanced technology information technology'southward using for its streams. If yous have a uniform TV you get access to all of Amazon's loftier dynamic range content at no extra toll, that means you need a modern 4K console with HDR support.

When information technology offset launched the service earlier in the yr there wasn't much to it, now though there is a whole host of its own content available to stream in both HDR and 4K Ultra Hard disk drive formats.

Information technology's withal not at the same levels every bit its 1080p Hard disk drive content, merely it'due south impressive that it is growing. And gives the people who've already taken a punt on a HDR-capable Tv set something to bear witness off to their mates.

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