New Amazon Prime Streaming - total crap!

[FiF]

Agreed there isn't a vast depth there of stuff that is free to Prime. Suspect it will be very similar to when we got a free trial run with Netflix. Try it to the end of the free period and then not renew.

In our case that's September but guess we won't be renewing Prime either then.
Unless they sort out the content this might not end well.

[arfur sleep]

Set the app up on the xbox - no problems.

Downloaded the app to my 3 Apple devices - no problems.

Whispersync works across all platforms too.

Content - not great but there's a few films available that I haven't seen, and the first three series of Games of Thrones I intend to start watching ASAP.

Cost - my renewal date is December, so I've plenty of time to assess the value of this "free" service. I was thinking about cancelling Prime anyway as I don't use it much these days so this may be make or break.

So I'm generally happy with it so far.

[Rude-boy]

I am not an Apple user and am very happy with my Android phone and tablet.

Yet they will not be making this service available to Android users, only those who have Apple or Kindle devices. I don't need a Kindle (I have an app for that).

I Set up a Prime account a before Christmas 2012 and have found it has been excellent. Almost everything I have bought on line since then has been from Amazon as a result of this.

I am not interested in paying more than the £49 I paid this year for extras that Amazon are incapable of providing to me in a way i can access without buying additional kit i don't want or need.

Will be unchecking the auto renew this evening and once the Prime membership expires in Jan 2015 I will set up a Paypal account and start looking at the bay of fleas and other on line retailers if I'm having to pay per item postage again.

Amazon, I get the feeling you’ve screwed the pooch on this one.

[P-Jay]

I've just had my Lovefilm account transferred over, I simply don't have a clue what my status is now - I've used Amazon a few times and have an account, but certainly wouldn't pay for a Prime account for faster deliveries, I don't use it enough - but it seems I'm a prime customer now and on the 4th of March I'll be charged for it - fk that. Sneaky sods, I'd never have known if I hadn't spotted this thread.

Anyway, the rental by post site is total toss, I can't see anyway to navigate to it other than via the welcome page, Amazon has always been a st site, but this one is especially bad.

But it seems, some diffculities aside it's worked out for the best, I can (I hope) ditch the streaming service which has always been piss-poor compared to Netflix and carry on with rental by post for £7 less, the same £7 I currently pay Netflix for their service - AND the whole merger seems to have sorted out one of the annoying problems with Lovefilm Post - the odd blockbuster they can't seem to stock - Kickass 2, Hangover 3 and the Great Gatsby have appeared.

[Emeye]

Now TV - IMO much better content, and the box you can buy for £9.99 works fantastically well - it is so small, portable and wifi, you can transfer it around the house to any TV very easily as long as you have decent wifi coverage. Or just buy more boxes - they also do Spotify premium and other on demand TV - e.g iPlayer.

Or you can use pretty much any tablet, phone, PC, xbox (if you have gold) etc

[P-Jay]

chris watton said:

Having now looked at all the titles free to stream on Prime, I can say that at least 95% of stuff is beyond bottom of the barrel material, especially the films. What you see on the main Prime page is literally the best they have on offer - scratch the surface, and it's all down hill from there.

If it's unchanged from Lovefilm's streaming service it's 90% B-Movies from Skyfy Channel, 'soundalikes' AKA cheap films made to cash-in on blockbusters with by using similar names and covers and bigger budget films that were crap - the rest are either very old (but not 'classic' films) and 4-5 decent films from 5-10 years ago - they've typically been on TV recently - these are the ones shown on the front page.

The service would be far better if they cut out the toss and just offered the 10%, it's very frustrating scrolling through 20 pages of films looking for that one diamond in the rough.

[Mutley]

P-Jay said:

I've just had my Lovefilm account transferred over, I simply don't have a clue what my status is now - I've used Amazon a few times and have an account, but certainly wouldn't pay for a Prime account for faster deliveries, I don't use it enough - but it seems I'm a prime customer now and on the 4th of March I'll be charged for it - fk that. Sneaky sods, I'd never have known if I hadn't spotted this thread.

It takes some doing, and I can’t recall how right now, but I bookmarked the page https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/primecentral?ie=UTF8&a... it should say that if you haven’t signed up for Prime and just a member of instant video, I’m happy getting a dvd by post, That is it for now for me till I’ve finished the box sets I’m watching

P-Jay said:

Anyway, the rental by post site is total toss, I can't see anyway to navigate to it other than via the welcome page, Amazon has always been a st site, but this one is especially bad.

I bookmarked this www.amazon.co.uk/gp/rentallist as it took forever to find it, should take you directly to your list, but it isn’t clear how to select a film. For that, you have to go to the main screen, hover over the film you want, and it should then open a small popup to “add to your list”

P-Jay said:

But it seems, some difficulties aside it's worked out for the best, I can (I hope) ditch the streaming service which has always been piss-poor compared to Netflix and carry on with rental by post for £7 less, the same £7 I currently pay Netflix for their service - AND the whole merger seems to have sorted out one of the annoying problems with Lovefilm Post - the odd blockbuster they can't seem to stock - Kickass 2, Hangover 3 and the Great Gatsby have appeared.

I’m going to be charged £5.99 in March, for Prime Instant Video, no mention that I’ll be paying for full prime services. Lovefilm screens were bad enough to navigate, but the amazon idea is piss poor

[Jaykaybi]

Time to cancel my subscription.

Much has been said about the laughable film library, but over the years I've enjoyed watching the entire back catalogue of Only Fools and Horses, Fawlty Towers, Father Ted, Dexter, even Lost (yes, I watched every episode) etc so I actually thought it was good value for money and I was a happy customer. Just this week I was half way through a TV season, and then the switch to Prime happened. I was still able to watch it for a day or two so that was a relief, but now it's prompting me to pay £39.99 to buy the season (and future seasons are priced at that level too, meaning if I wanted to finish the catalogue as I've previously done it'd cost me £159.96). That's FOUR TIMES more to buy it in app than Amazon themselves charge for the DVD version!!!

F**k yourselves, Amazon. I want to use the app to view things that are included in the streaming service I pay for. I do not want to use it to see things you want me to pay more for, especially when they were previously included at no additional cost.

[FiF]

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/126129-which-is-th...

So seeing as so many people are brassed off is this the time for an overview.

[P-Jay]

Mutley said:

P-Jay said:

I've just had my Lovefilm account transferred over, I simply don't have a clue what my status is now - I've used Amazon a few times and have an account, but certainly wouldn't pay for a Prime account for faster deliveries, I don't use it enough - but it seems I'm a prime customer now and on the 4th of March I'll be charged for it - fk that. Sneaky sods, I'd never have known if I hadn't spotted this thread.

It takes some doing, and I can’t recall how right now, but I bookmarked the page https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/primecentral?ie=UTF8&a... it should say that if you haven’t signed up for Prime and just a member of instant video, I’m happy getting a dvd by post, That is it for now for me till I’ve finished the box sets I’m watching

P-Jay said:

Anyway, the rental by post site is total toss, I can't see anyway to navigate to it other than via the welcome page, Amazon has always been a st site, but this one is especially bad.

I bookmarked this www.amazon.co.uk/gp/rentallist as it took forever to find it, should take you directly to your list, but it isn’t clear how to select a film. For that, you have to go to the main screen, hover over the film you want, and it should then open a small popup to “add to your list”

P-Jay said:

But it seems, some difficulties aside it's worked out for the best, I can (I hope) ditch the streaming service which has always been piss-poor compared to Netflix and carry on with rental by post for £7 less, the same £7 I currently pay Netflix for their service - AND the whole merger seems to have sorted out one of the annoying problems with Lovefilm Post - the odd blockbuster they can't seem to stock - Kickass 2, Hangover 3 and the Great Gatsby have appeared.

I’m going to be charged £5.99 in March, for Prime Instant Video, no mention that I’ll be paying for full prime services. Lovefilm screens were bad enough to navigate, but the amazon idea is piss poor

Thanks for the info, I've cancelled the Prime Video thing, whilst technically it makes customer 'prime customers' it isn't the same as the one-day-delivery thing, it's more of an upgrade for Prime Customers. My rental by post account is unchanged, I haven't used streaming for months so I'm £7 a month up, happy days.

I fought my way around for about 20 mins, hence why my post changed tone as it rambled on, I 'think' I've got it now, but it's far from easy.

I suspect a lot of LF members will drop the streaming service, it was 'free' to us originally.

[P-Jay]

FiF said:

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/126129-which-is-th...

So seeing as so many people are brassed off is this the time for an overview.

I'm surprised by that report, it seems to paint the idea that LF has better streaming offerings that Netflix, as a customer of both for a few months I'd say Netflix wins hands down - better films, less choice - being that most of that 'choice' on LF is bargain basement st that Danny Dyer turned down, it just mean less crap to wade though.

[Emeye]

IIRC, Amazon lose money every year - it was only time until they started trying to make a profit - they get you hooked then start putting the prices up.

[Rude-boy]

Emeye said:

IIRC, Amazon lose money every year - it was only time until they started trying to make a profit - they get you hooked then start putting the prices up.

If they had put Prime up to £59 it would still have been a winner for me, but by adding this rubbish that I can only use if I turn to the dark side or buy a Kindle (which i don't need) and making me pay more for it they will lose my Prime membership in January 2015.

Because I am a Prime member (insert joke) I have bought almost everything I have bought on line via Amazon in the last 15 months. Infact there are a number of things I would have bought from a real shop that I haven't because of the free delivery saving me fuel/parking/time costs.

Now I am likely to be buying far less from them and highly unlikely to be a Prime member once the current one expires.

Losing custom is not the way increase your profits.

[Mutley]

P-Jay said:

I suspect a lot of LF members will drop the streaming service, it was 'free' to us originally.

Exactly, If I'm going to have to pay to stream, I'll go to Netflix or Blinkbox. Less messy to navigate

[Gren]

P-Jay said:

I suspect a lot of LF members will drop the streaming service, it was 'free' to us originally.

Great isn't it. We originally paid £14 a month for unlimited discs 3 at a time. Then they threw in streaming for free. Now you can remove the streaming and remove £5.99 from the price.

Bargain!

[Silver Smudger]

Gren said:

P-Jay said:

I suspect a lot of LF members will drop the streaming service, it was 'free' to us originally.

Great isn't it. We originally paid £14 a month for unlimited discs 3 at a time. Then they threw in streaming for free. Now you can remove the streaming and remove £5.99 from the price.

Bargain!

How do you delete streaming? I am quite happy to continue getting bluray discs in the post - For less money!

[TCEvo]

Silver Smudger said:

Gren said:

P-Jay said:

I suspect a lot of LF members will drop the streaming service, it was 'free' to us originally.

Great isn't it. We originally paid £14 a month for unlimited discs 3 at a time. Then they threw in streaming for free. Now you can remove the streaming and remove £5.99 from the price.

Bargain!

How do you delete streaming? I am quite happy to continue getting bluray discs in the post - For less money!

I've just transferred our account across - there's an option in the account management settings to cancel the prime stuff (which i did). Seems that i'm now paying £4.00 pcm for 2 dvd's (i think we were paying £9.99 pcm). Doesn't seem to be a way to change how many discs you can get though.

[Jaykaybi]

Jaykaybi said:

Time to cancel my subscription.

Much has been said about the laughable film library, but over the years I've enjoyed watching the entire back catalogue of Only Fools and Horses, Fawlty Towers, Father Ted, Dexter, even Lost (yes, I watched every episode) etc so I actually thought it was good value for money and I was a happy customer. Just this week I was half way through a TV season, and then the switch to Prime happened. I was still able to watch it for a day or two so that was a relief, but now it's prompting me to pay £39.99 to buy the season (and future seasons are priced at that level too, meaning if I wanted to finish the catalogue as I've previously done it'd cost me £159.96). That's FOUR TIMES more to buy it in app than Amazon themselves charge for the DVD version!!!

F**k yourselves, Amazon. I want to use the app to view things that are included in the streaming service I pay for. I do not want to use it to see things you want me to pay more for, especially when they were previously included at no additional cost.

I can only presume someone from Amazon read this, as they've made the series I was watching free (included) again. Baffling. Imagine the rant I could have posted if I'd paid for it!

[Jaykaybi]

Also, 100 months.

[FiF]

Jaykaybi said:

Jaykaybi said:

Time to cancel my subscription.

Much has been said about the laughable film library, but over the years I've enjoyed watching the entire back catalogue of Only Fools and Horses, Fawlty Towers, Father Ted, Dexter, even Lost (yes, I watched every episode) etc so I actually thought it was good value for money and I was a happy customer. Just this week I was half way through a TV season, and then the switch to Prime happened. I was still able to watch it for a day or two so that was a relief, but now it's prompting me to pay £39.99 to buy the season (and future seasons are priced at that level too, meaning if I wanted to finish the catalogue as I've previously done it'd cost me £159.96). That's FOUR TIMES more to buy it in app than Amazon themselves charge for the DVD version!!!

F**k yourselves, Amazon. I want to use the app to view things that are included in the streaming service I pay for. I do not want to use it to see things you want me to pay more for, especially when they were previously included at no additional cost.

I can only presume someone from Amazon read this, as they've made the series I was watching free (included) again. Baffling. Imagine the rant I could have posted if I'd paid for it!

I don't get it either.

I watched an episode of the IT crowd as a test.
Forgotten how good it was so started to watch through season 1.
Next day Amazon want to charge me for it. 1.89 an episode.
So I thought stuff you Amazon intending to not renew in Sept.
Tonight it's back on Free with Prime.

Funking bizarre.