Amazon Prime Video launches in Australia
Move over Netflix, Stan & Foxtel Play -new service comes with a $US2.99 introductory offer.
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It’s official. Amazon Prime Video has launched a Streaming service in Australia today, as part of a global rollout in over 200 countries and territories.
It will feature Amazon Original Series such as The Grand Tour, Transparent, Mozart in the Jungle, The Man in the High Castle and most children’s series like Creative Galaxy, Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street, Tumble Leaf and Wishenpoof.
Customers in Australia can sign up at an introductory price of $US2.99 Â ($AU3.98) per month for the first six months, starting with a free 7-day trial at PrimeVideo.com.
New seasons of The Man in the High Castle, Mozart in the Jungle, Hand of God, Red Oaks will follow plus full first seasons of The Grand Tour, Woody Allen’s Crisis in Six Scenes, David E. Kelley’s Goliath featuring Billy Bob Thornton, docuseries American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story, Sneaky Pete produced by Bryan Cranston and Graham Yost, Z: The Beginning of Everything starring Christina Ricci, Patriot, The Tick, among other Hollywood movies and TV shows coming soon.
It also promises Original programming not only from the US, but around the world.
How to Watch
Members can watch Amazon Prime Video in English, with French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish subtitled and dubbed versions also available for many titles. Members can watch anytime, anywhere through the Amazon Prime Video app on Android and iOS phones and tablets, Fire Tablets, popular LG and Samsung Smart TVs or online at PrimeVideo.com. Members can also download all movies and TV shows for offline viewing—that means watching on a plane, train, anywhere at no additional cost.
Prime Video members can also control how much data they use when streaming and downloading video by choosing between Good, Better and Best visual quality settings, all of which utilise Amazon Prime Video’s state of the art video compression technology to use less data without reducing visual quality. Amazon Prime Video’s automated and machine learning systems will also select the best streaming configurations for a given customer based on their device, location and Internet Service Provider, providing better visual quality and fewer interruptions even when internet connection speeds are slow or highly variable.
- Tagged with American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story, Creative Galaxy, Crisis in Six Scenes, Goliath, Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street, Graham Yost, Hand of God, he Man in the High Castle, It will feature Amazon Original Series such as The Grand Tour, Mozart in the Jungle, Patriot, Red Oaks, Sneaky Pete, The Man in the High Castle, The Tick, Transparent, Tumble Leaf, Wishenpoof, Z: The Beginning of Everything
16 Responses
I signed up with the US prime store a month ago based on being able to watch the Grand tour – They have other shows that I can watch on Netflix or another US service I subscribe to. There’s a bit of duplication once you get past original content – but all three combined keeps us amused for less than 40$ month
Yes,i would also like to know if you can chromecast it from a tablet,as I wouldn’t be able to see it otherwise
There’s an amazon video app you can download to your xbox one if you have ?
Is this google chromecast friendly, cause I won’t be paying $2.99(US) or whatever to watch only on small Laptop screen.
Stan advises it retains exclusive first run rights to Transparent and Mozart in the Jungle, meaning Amazon is currently running earlier seasons.
$US ? Wait for the people to complain about how they thought they were paying $2.99, only to check their bank statement and see $3.50+ go up and down due to the exchange rate charges from banks.
I’m paying $8 a month for Netflix, but they have a big library of content. I’d expect Amazon Prime to be a lot smaller. But I might do it to check out Man In The High Castle
I started watching TMITHC last night and it’s great. Easily worth the inroductory price all by itself.
On first glance it’s not worth paying for. There is nothing good to watch. I’ve only downloaded the app and was very disappointed.
Yeahhhhh, I won’t be paying in US$. Sorry, maybe if they have a consistent set price for Australia, then I would consider joining, but not knowing what the price will be every month, because of currency fluctuations is a real tangible barrier.
It will be between $6 and $10 based on currency fluctuations over the past 5 years and around $7.70 – $8.80 based on the last 12 months.
or $4 based on now.
Hopefully the Telstra TV and game consoles will get the app soon too.
Being that they’re already made, it’s just a case of flipping the switch for Australia.
Does this mean SBS will still be showing Bosch next year? I don’t see it listed here.
Thanks.
Now how long before Screen Producers Australia start making demands of Amazon just like they do of Netflix.
Strictly speaking they made those demands of the government, which is their role. Would be great if they were all producing content here but I don’t see it increasing anytime soon.