Not ideal but searching for ‘UHD’ seems to do the trick. Also any search result has a ‘4K UHD’ filter
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Amazon's Redesigned Prime Video App Now Available for Apple TV
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My wife and I bought a Samsung with ATV "built in" when that first came out. It was such an abysmal experience compared to using an actual ATV, we ended up just buying another one for that TV.
Depends on the country. In my region it doesn’t integrate with the TV app. Maybe this version does?
How f-n hard is it for a streaming service to just give me a list of everything in their library and then filter down on genera(s), release years, rating, box office revenue, studio, various review sites, actors, ect.???? 🤦🏼♂️
Heh, impeccable timing. I cancelled my Amazon Prime, so today will be my last day. Not sure if that means today is the last day to watch, today is when I lose access to it, or it actually uses the time I renewed last year as the cutoff time.
I wasn't buying much stuff, but kept AP for a few more years due to the streaming service. Nowadays, we'll see how well we fare without it (should be doable. I'm not in a city, so 2-day shipping is more like 4-day shipping). If not, we can always just resub)
Very much a copy of Netflix's UI ... not saying that's a bad thing, Netflix seemed to really set the gold standard early on and kept refining things from there. There's a few minor things that annoy me here and there, but from an overall experience level, I'm just not sure how much more you can really improve the design these days .... It's kinda like phone form factors -- what are you going to do that's "innovative" from here on out? Make it a circle vs a rectangle?
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I'm gonna say it... I HATE this style of navigation that all streaming service follow now from Netflix. BBC iPlayer did it in their recent update too. it's fine if all you want to consume is a very limited 'selected' content from the provider. But impossible (or at least much more convoluted) to find things you are specifically looking for, or if you just want to browse through categories. Literally they just focus on what they want to highlight as the 'most popular' shows and movies, whether they are reeeeeally the most popular or not. It's incredibly frustrating!
I just turned on my Apple TV and the app is still the earlier ver . Is there a way I can make it update?
No, no NO! Don't you realise, you can only watch this week 'TOP 10 MOST POPULAR' shows. Or the 'top 10 most popular shows we think you'd like'. Or the 'top 10 shows your neighbours recommended'....
Most importantly, has it dropped the, apparently DELIBERATE decision to restart the app (and lose the movie I had open) every time it reverts from being in the background?
I am so fscking sick of this that Prime is pretty much at the top of services to be culled once I finished its last few movies on my list.
(This is not the tvOS killing apps when other apps have used up all the RAM. It appears to be a deliberate decision that if Prime hasn't been the foreground app for some period of time [1hr?] when the app is brought to foreground it checks the timer and deliberately restarts itself!)
I am so fscking sick of this that Prime is pretty much at the top of services to be culled once I finished its last few movies on my list.
(This is not the tvOS killing apps when other apps have used up all the RAM. It appears to be a deliberate decision that if Prime hasn't been the foreground app for some period of time [1hr?] when the app is brought to foreground it checks the timer and deliberately restarts itself!)
You can do this sort of thing VERY well in the iPad IMDB app. Seriously.
I maintain a huge wishlist in IMDB and (on iPad, not on Web) it's a joy to slice and dice that however I want. Especially useful is the "Your Watchlist" section which allows you to do things like see what, on your watchlist, is available on Prime or Netflix (or both), or by genre, etc.
By actor, studio or revenue I have zero interest in, so I can't speak to those.
We cancelled our Prime membership earlier this year. Loathe Amazon as a company but sometimes you do have to bite the bullet and place an order if you need something that is hard to find locally.
So, with that, we have some experience in this boat. Free shipping starts at $25 and it usually takes a couple extra days to get to you. Not a big deal at all for us.
Also, your Prime membership doesn’t end immediately. It will last through your billing month.
I stopped Netflix, I'm loving AppleTV+ content but I also have Prime Video, the app really needed a refresh
I cant get the app to work at all, keeps saying I have no internet connection. Anyone else run into this?
I love seeing dozens of different weird hyper-specific categories and somehow all of them have the exact same 10-15 shows and movies.
Ha! Uglier with less content on the screen, same mediocre performance, and ******** auto-playing videos? I guess I'm never updating this ever again.
I really like it. No lag, good organization. Doesn't play annoying trailers on everything I hover over. Clear star ratings *coughNetflixsuckscough*
Definitely love the part where selecting a title shows you recommended titles, and then under those title icons is a rent or buy tag if they aren't included with Prime. Much more clear than the corner banners were.
Definitely love the part where selecting a title shows you recommended titles, and then under those title icons is a rent or buy tag if they aren't included with Prime. Much more clear than the corner banners were.
All of Amazon’s apps are disasters, especially their main shopping and streaming apps. They are all slow clunky web wrappers that barely functions half of the time. Their UIs are all over the place across different apps and even within the apps themselves. Often something that‘s available on iPhone is missing on the iPad. It’s totally inexcusable for a company as large and consumer facing as Amazon. And given the state of this new update, they still think a heavy layer of lipstick on a pig is the right approach.