Amazon Prime Video, what gems have you found? (NO SPOILERS)

[DodgyGeezer]

Elroy Blue said:

I had an ad break appear mid sentence last night.
The actor was in full flow, tense scene and suddenly it's bloody red nose day.
Utter garbage

boyse7en said:

An interesting development for me is that the Ads play over the film/TV show.

So if I click to start a new show or film, it starts to play and then after a second or so it switches to an advert. But the TV show keeps playing in the background. You can hear both sets of audio (ad and show) at the same time, and when the ad finishes the the film/show is a minute or two along. So i miss the first couple of minutes of anything I am trying to watch.

Utter garbage. They're making the ITVX app look like a quality bit of programming

I wonder if the aim is to make the ads soooo bad/intrusive that it drives people into paying the extra? I've not noticed anything yet except for at the start of a show - doubtless that joy is still to come

[Speckle]

My experience with the ads hasn't been that bad so far. I've been steadily bingeing the latest season of Fargo this week (which is superb by the way!). The ads at the beginning are fine. 30 seconds worth and they're done. In my case (I'm watching via an AppleTV4K) the show doesn't start until the ad is finished.

In the 5 or so episode I've watched since the ads were implemented, the interim ads play at different points. They have evidently been strategically positioned to play after a scene has concluded rather than in the middle of anything. Each ad break has been less than a minute so far.

So far, I've not found them intrusive at all - nothing like watching live TV channels where you get ad breaks every 10 to 15 mins, which go on for about 4 minutes at least.

If things change and I start to see them popping up mid-sentence as other people have experienced, I'll just pay the £3 extra a month and get things back to normal. So far though, I'm fine with it and it seems to have been well implemented.

Edited by Speckle on Wednesday 7th February 12:49

[Smollet]

Speckle said:

My experience with the ads hasn't been that bad so far. I've been steadily bingeing the latest season of Fargo this week (which is superb by the way!). The ads at the beginning are fine. 30 seconds worth and they're done. In my case (I'm watching via an AppleTV4K) the show doesn't start until the ad is finished.

In the 5 or so episode I've watched since the ads were implemented, the interim ads play at different points. They have evidently been strategically positioned to play after a scene has concluded rather than in the middle of anything. Each ad break has been less than a minute so far.

So far, I've not found them intrusive at all - nothing like watching live TV channels where you get ad breaks every 10 to 15 mins, which go on for about 4 minutes at least.

If things change and I start to see them popping up mid-sentence as other people have experienced, I'll just pay the £3 extra a month and get things back to normal. So far though, I'm fine with it and it seems to have been well implemented.

Edited by Speckle on Wednesday 7th February 12:49

Tbh I decided £3 was sfa so opted in.

[Acorn1]

I've gone for the ad free option.£2.99pm is FA

I don't agree with it as it's already a paid service anyway.

However if they'd just said prices are going up we'd have had a bit of bleating, but wat else hasn't gone up?

Thank you to whoever recommended Daeth's Game superb TV

[Speckle]

My logic is simple - the moment it starts to annoy me, I'll opt in immediately (seems a better option than cancelling and having to seek out illegal streams of the Prime shows I want to watch for the sake of £3 a month)

[dieselgrunt]

The ads suck, just appear out of nowhere. Prime doesn’t have enough new content to warrant any extra money as far as I am concerned. Disappointing.

[Prolex-UK]

The diplomat.

2 episodes. First 134 minutes long.

Bit is a is he dodgy geezer or a hero type of series. The diplomat that is.... His ex wife is very easy on the eye

Not a bad watch.

Said no to paying for adverts. Did not get interrupted once. Not sure why but hey ho

[RowntreesCabana]

Cancelled Prime. I spent a fair bit of money with my store purchases too. From now on I'll be buying from elsewhere.

"Revenue at the company rose 13% to $143.1bn in the three months to 30 September, clearing expectations on Wall Street. Profits surged to $9.9bn, from $2.9bn a year ago"

[Clockwork Cupcake]

This is just another example of shrinkflation.

Amazon would have been better off raising the price of the subscription by £2.99 per month, I reckon.

[illmonkey]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

This is just another example of shrinkflation.

Amazon would have been better off raising the price of the subscription by £2.99 per month, I reckon.

Oh they'll do that too...

Prime is worth it for the delivery, they can still beat most places and deliver NBD. I try to use other places but people can't compete on price and convenience sadly.

[Truckosaurus]

I declined the additional fee but haven't seen any adverts yet, so it must not be on all shows (I have mostly watching a box set from an additional 'channel' so perhaps they are exempt from ads?)

Where does that leave the 'FreeVee' platform, wasn't that just 'Amazon with Ads' or can you get that without paying any monthlies?

[Smollet]

Truckosaurus said:

I declined the additional fee but haven't seen any adverts yet, so it must not be on all shows (I have mostly watching a box set from an additional 'channel' so perhaps they are exempt from ads?)

Where does that leave the 'FreeVee' platform, wasn't that just 'Amazon with Ads' or can you get that without paying any monthlies?

I get FreeVee free with Amazon Prime.

[Truckosaurus]

Smollet said:

I get FreeVee free with Amazon Prime.

Indeed. But can you get FreeVee without Prime?

[Cotty]

Maybe its just a glitch but the four films I have watched have had no adverts.

I wanted to watch a scene from a film I saw ages ago. Set it on play and skipped forward to the scene, no adverts. Usually it will nt alow you to skip forwards and bypass adverts

[Smollet]

Truckosaurus said:

Indeed. But can you get FreeVee without Prime?

No idea. I only found it through Amazon. Never heard of it before

[Cotty]

Truckosaurus said:

Indeed. But can you get FreeVee without Prime?

It seems yes. You can download the FreeVee app on its own
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com....

[DodgyGeezer]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

This is just another example of shrinkflation.

Amazon would have been better off raising the price of the subscription by £2.99 per month, I reckon.

truth be told I suspect that they could have raised fees by half that (ie £1.50) and still made money with: fewer people cancelling and less bad publicity;

[Smollet]

DodgyGeezer said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

This is just another example of shrinkflation.

Amazon would have been better off raising the price of the subscription by £2.99 per month, I reckon.

truth be told I suspect that they could have raised fees by half that (ie £1.50) and still made money with: fewer people cancelling and less bad publicity;

Corporate common sense is rare these days

[DE1975]

Back on the subject of programmes watched, I just finished watching "11.22.63", based on the Stephen King book of the same name.

James Franco plays a guy who travels back to 1960 and sets out to prevent the assassination of JFK.

Thought it was a decent watch. Released in 2016 but not heard of it before. 7.5/10 for me.

[matrignano]

Mr and Mr Smith, 4 guns out of 10 Cameos

Thought I was in for some spy action comedy st and ended up watching a depressing semi art-house rom com.

I think Glover (as director and producer) is buying is own hype too much here.

Oh and he’s not even dressed remotely as well as he thinks