JAA
Footballguy
Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge to dodge them
This will be the straw which breaks my fat *** back. I will be done
This will be the straw which breaks my fat *** back. I will be done
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Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter JAA
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Why? Ads don’t even bother me much. There’s so much content that I like watching any movie I can on a bunch of free sites.
Making shows and movies is expensive, inflation is there too. We saw it with Netflix and Disney+ cutting back a bit. Prime video is free if you already pay for prime, which I do and likely always will. To me, I’ve always seen all the Prime content (freevee is them too) as a free bonus and there’s a few shows that are great.
titusbramble
Footballguy
Amazon's ad algorithm will though, guaranteed, it is so unbelievably repetitive that if I get an ad break on one of their platforms without a plug for the Far Cry audio book, or Audible in general, I consider it a minor miracle on a par with Rashaad Penny playing more than three quarters without getting injured
jhib
Footballguy
And that's similar to ads on Hulu. Progressive dude talking to Flo about his client Barbie... over and over and over.
I'd be a little more okay with Amazon's decision if I thought it was more about getting ad revenue. But I expect the plan will be to play the same annoying ads over and over (a good portion being free-for-them ads for other Amazon products) to convince more people to pony up the extra $36 a year.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Netflix's days are numbered if this keeps up. I currently have Netflix, Prime, Hulu, and Max. If I have to drop one, it's an easy call.
titusbramble
Footballguy
Hint - most streaming services have a button called "pause", which works in much the same way as it did with VHS players 40 years ago
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Don’t forget about bent carrots
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Paying a monthly subscription fee to watch channels with ads? Now where have we seen this before . . .?
Not really the same. This is solely a fee to not watch ads. That said, I have gone to the I’m fine to pay less for ads. I still pay way less than Dish Network for way more and way easier to use. I watched My Chauffeur and Vision Quest recently. The latter was free with ads but still awesome. Unless Blockbuster is reopening with an 80s theme, I’d have a real tough time doing that without streaming.
You’re doing it wrong. You go take a whiz and then you can rewind back to the end of the ad so you don’t have to watch it. I’ve gotten good at timing ads as well. If I’m eating lunch (WFH), I’ll do the throw away/clean up during the ads or starting the cooking, check dog’s bowls, check emails, etc. I will also always pick the 30 second interactive ad and click around for fun.
massraider
Footballguy
You are a dream consumer.
Maybe. I just would rather have a 30 second ad than a two minute+ one.
I read this way too fast the first time through and had to a double take on what it was you were doing to your dog.
jhib
Footballguy
But you're paying the subscription fee to watch the channels with ads. You're just okay with that because it's baked into the fee that includes other perks and you feel it's worth it (and it's yearly instead of monthly), but you're still paying for it. And some people without those other Prime perks pay for the Prime Video-only subscription, now (soon) with ads.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Meh. I don't even consider Prime on the things I "subscribe" to. I have wife. My wife shops. We have credit card. She uses said credit card. Amazon fills all those buckets, I get free or different shipping or whatever it is now, and they just give me the video and music service. Ok. Whatever.
The ads do normally suck though.
The ads do normally suck though.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I wish. For some reason my family likes NF so I had to decide to axe Max or Criterion since I was the only one who watched those.
BeTheMatch
Footballguy
Can't remember the last time I watched something on Netflix
beer 30
Footballguy
The Hims commercials on HULU are the ones that do it for me. I usually stream something when I'm working out in the morning and that's just not what I want to see that early in the morning...25 ****ing times.
kupcho1
Footballguy
Which mobile carrier are you with?
I've got T-Mobile and they throw in Netflix for free. I think most all of the others throw in a streaming service as well. (IIRC Verizon = Disney and ATT&T = Apple TV)
Worth checking what you may already be getting for free.
dkp993
Footballguy
I have all those as well. And what’s interesting is for me. The easy drop is Max.
I don’t consider it. It’s like the Thursday night football. It’s just there. With one son a couple hours away working and one son at college, we use it a ton so I’d have Prime regardless. Honestly, Prime has a bunch of stuff I like show wise so it’s well worth it. Not sure if I’d pay more for no-ads but I don’t really consider it. Just like my HBO Max. Comes with my AT&T service. I’m sure the cost was built in but I’m not cancelling my cell service.
Oh so I don’t care at all.
massraider
Footballguy
Yeah and I don't think any of my Amazon orders needed to be there in two days.
I don't think Prime is a very good deal for me.
Really, I love prime shows. Jack Ryan finished solid. Love The Boys, Invincible, LOTR, Peripheral (so annoyed they cancelled it due to strike after picking up season 2) and I even enjoyed Wheel of Time, which it sounds likes it’s been better this season. Also, The Expanse was awesome and unlike GOT, I do plan to rewatch that whole series at some point. I want to forget a bit more. I’m sure I’m missing more like movies, but I’d give up Max easily and I’d have a tough time deciding with Netflix. Max and Prime are free to me so luckily don’t have to decide. Netflix is definitely something I might drop and then pick back up when the last season of stranger things comes out.
Klimtology
Footballguy
skol asylum
Footballguy
Netflix has way more and better content than Hulu imo.
Capella
Footballguy
All those shows you mentioned I haven’t watched any of them other than the boys, which I bailed on pretty quickly. Different strokes etc.
massraider
Footballguy
If Prime had to rely on it's content, it would have been gone a long time ago.
Even the football they offer is the worst.
Hey, we have the NFL!!
oh dang really?
Yes! Thursday night games!!
oh....
Additionally, I've enjoyed Top Gear/Grand Tour, Clarkson's Farm, Bosch, Patriot, Catastrophe, Air, Reacher, Upload, plus a lot of random movies and kids stuff. I think the service is underrated and is probably up there with Disney and Netflix for most watched streamers in my house.
Someone posted above that it’s no charge still for no ads if you have overall Prime. Seems like it only affects Prime Video only folks.
Ok cranky. It’s funny because teams go up and down but why would you complain about the Eagles/Vikings and 49ers/Giants. Before the season that was 3 division winners and one playoff team. You get Hurts, CMC, Barkley, AJ Brown, D Smith, Deebo, Jefferson, Bosa, etc.
Sorry man, if you don’t enjoy it, it doesn’t mean it wasn’t good content.
FreeBaGeL
Footballguy
Throwing shade at any of the streaming services over the other is silly. The reality is in a vacuum all of the streaming services are a pretty amazing deal. Obviously when you add them all up together the price starts to get out of hand but individually the content they deliver for the price is pretty insane. Any one of the modern streaming services is probably comparable to all of the premium channels combined in the past. And HBO existing in the past is the only reason it's even close.
None of them suck. They're all awesome. Everyone has different tastes on which they prefer but rotating through them so you're only subscribe to a few at a time and can focus on getting through a lot of shows from one or two of them at a time seems to be the way to go (which I think is why Amazon and some of the others have started dabbling in sports, so it's not as easy to just keep rotating in and out).
Heck even Paramount and Peacock have some pretty great content.
None of them suck. They're all awesome. Everyone has different tastes on which they prefer but rotating through them so you're only subscribe to a few at a time and can focus on getting through a lot of shows from one or two of them at a time seems to be the way to go (which I think is why Amazon and some of the others have started dabbling in sports, so it's not as easy to just keep rotating in and out).
Heck even Paramount and Peacock have some pretty great content.
dkp993
Footballguy
Well I’m confused now. The article I read before I posted that clearly stated that Amazon prime users would not be charged, it was only those with prime video memberships. That article is no longer around and I can’t find another one saying the same. So now I’m not sure.
skol asylum
Footballguy
People pay for Prime Video only? I didn't even think that was an option. I barely watch it and cant imagine paying only for that.
skol asylum
Footballguy
Content is fine. The video quality last week was awful.
massraider
Footballguy
We have decades of proof that Thursday Night Football is a bad product. This is not a hot take.
FreeBaGeL
Footballguy
It's cute when football fans pretend like they don't want more football, but TNF ratings have been pretty comparable with MNF ratings the last couple of years, so it's pretty clear most people do in fact like it.
I can't imagine going back to the days of having to wait 6 days between games every week.
I can't imagine going back to the days of having to wait 6 days between games every week.
belljr
Footballguy
I don't watch either!!!! Lol
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
The NFL on Prime is the sharpest picture of any games.
Eephus
Footballguy
But the delay vs. OTA is sometimes more than a minute
yep and it doesn't just take a minute either, it's easily a few each time. can't really do it.
BladeRunner
Footballguy
Seems like it's ALL Amazon Prime members to me too:
Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge to dodge them
Amazon’s Prime Video will begin showing adds during shows and movies early next year, joining other streaming services that have added different tiers of subscriptions
Mister CIA
Footballguy
I like Prime Video and I'll pay extra for ad-free. sorry
