Maybe I'll give it a try. It's better than paying for cable and still needing to watch ads 
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Amazon Freevee Service Now Available on Apple TV
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The issue is that people are paying for Prime and Amazon is including content on Freevee with ads but not also making it available to subscribers ad free. Yup, first world problem, and nobody is forcing anyone to watch the content with the ads, but since it is an Amazon service and people are paying for their subscription, it seems wrong not to allow those paying to watch ad free.
Thanks for the info. Interesting. But, does this mean the ad version within the Prime Video app goes away? Seems like the same.
This made me so mad when I was about to watch Bosch Legacy on amazon prime, I was forced to watch FreeVee crap through prime app... I think them and Netflix are working overtime to make sure people drop them as a service.
I’d forgotten IMDb TV was even a thing. When I hear IMDb, I don’t typically think “Hulu”, I think “Wikipedia for tv shows and movies”. But the streaming market is super saturated. It wasn’t so bad when it was just Netflix+Hulu, but I don’t get how TV watchers (which, no, I’m not really one) do it any more.
And it can’t really be all that good for the media companies in the long run, as it fractures the viewing market. (“What service did you say that show was on? Never mind, I don’t have that service…”) When I was younger, TV was still something of a social event. Even with the proliferation of cable networks, people would tune into shows like Friends or Seinfeld, especially the series finales, and then they’d talk about them the next day at work. Watching the latest episode was a shared experience with the people you knew who watched the show (which was going to be most people back then), so there’s social expectation and reinforcement that made so-called appointment TV so successful. These days, with whole seasons uploaded at once, people become out of sync with their media consumption. Some people will take a couple weeks, some people will finish that weekend. And, if you’re on the slower side when it comes to media consumption, you can’t really talk to your friends about the program until you’ve caught up, lessening the social reinforcement further.
And it can’t really be all that good for the media companies in the long run, as it fractures the viewing market. (“What service did you say that show was on? Never mind, I don’t have that service…”) When I was younger, TV was still something of a social event. Even with the proliferation of cable networks, people would tune into shows like Friends or Seinfeld, especially the series finales, and then they’d talk about them the next day at work. Watching the latest episode was a shared experience with the people you knew who watched the show (which was going to be most people back then), so there’s social expectation and reinforcement that made so-called appointment TV so successful. These days, with whole seasons uploaded at once, people become out of sync with their media consumption. Some people will take a couple weeks, some people will finish that weekend. And, if you’re on the slower side when it comes to media consumption, you can’t really talk to your friends about the program until you’ve caught up, lessening the social reinforcement further.
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One app can do it. Settings that give access and ads based on subscription or lack there-of or what level of subscription. Content that is available to see based on that access. It's really not that difficult. Amazon went the lazy way.
Enjoy your soup. Or not.
They could, but have you seen the Prime Video app recently? There is very little delineation between Prime, for purchase, and FreeVee. Had they revamped the app, I would agree. They didn’t and chose to break it out into its own service. Start your own company and you can do it your way.
I downloaded the app and it looks to have some decent things but from what I can see there was not much effort put into the layout. Amazon loves the horizontal scroll crap that takes forever to go through everything
I think to de-couple the service from the IMDB brand, so they can spin it off or sell the service to another company if they wish.
The reason people complain about Freevee and ads is likely because they’re paying for Amazon Prime, and it’s weird for Amazon to split its new content across two streaming services, one of which requires a subscription and one of which is free with ads (to the general public and to subscribers to the first service). Just maintaining two separate services shows a bit of a lack of focus on Amazon’s part, since the two both receive original content (how do they differentiate the two, how do they decide what goes where to prevent Freevee from cannibalizing Amazon Prime Video but simultaneously get people invested in watching Freevee to justify their investment in it). Additionally, it seems like Amazon doesn’t do a good enough job of differentiating content on one from the other.
It would be a little like if HBO had a non-premium channel to go with its premium channels (with original content on each) but you still had to authenticate to HBO in some way that meant that they could see that you have HBO on your cable plan. And, making matters worse, HBO somehow shows both services simultaneously on the same channel without clearly distinguishing from the ad supported and ad free content. As an HBO subscriber in this scenario, it would be annoying at least to turn on HBO and see an ad because the show airing was from the non-premium channel (never mind that you tuned to paid HBO and not the HBO-free channel).
Life is difficult that way. I think King was talking about this exact idea when he gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech. I distinctly remember the part about throwing off the chains of oppressive, ad-supported streaming services. Very moving.
They are not sanitized versions of the movies. There is language and nudity allowed.