Still waiting for an HBO app here in Canada... and it's sad because it's not going to happen.
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Sketchy Rumor: Amazon Prime Video May Launch on Apple TV Alongside Thursday Night Football This Week
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Literal lol earned.
Now, if a Poe's Law response comes in, my day is made.Amazon paid $50 million for streaming rights to the 10 Thursday night games. That check cashes regardless of who watches it. They just wanted the rights Twitter had last year. Apple had nothing to do with Amazon having enough eyeballs. The ATV is the lowest selling (major) streaming device. It's not really going to move the needle on Prime Video eyeballs.
I'm surprised that Amazon Prime in the US has a 2-day shipping turnaround. In the UK an Amazon Prime subscription entitles you to get eligible items the next day and can order as late as 8-10pm. In many cases, depending on the item, you can get unlimited same-day delivery in the evening if you order before midday, 7 days a week. So you could order something on your way to work and it'll be home by the time you get back in the evening, which is quite handy.
There's also an Amazon Prime Now service included in certain locations that allows you to order eligible items and receive it within 2 hours of placing the order. The 2-day shipping in the US is almost considered a basic/standard delivery time here for postal services, so it came as a surprise that you guys are paying for 2-day service as opposed to next-day/same-day delivery.
Having said that, you guys have much better content selection on Amazon Prime Video than we have here.
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Well lets see the entire UK is smaller than a state like Texas so that is why. Same BS answer saying that they got better broadband in Europe, SKorea, Japan well they are smaller countries the size of a US state. How is it in huge size countries like Canada or Russia? Not good so there.
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Hopefully this is true, this is going to be a streaming only app anyway so I don’t get the holdup
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This may surprise you but the United States and United Kingdom are not the same size
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This may surprise you but the United States and United Kingdom are not the same size
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Very simple approach. Cancel everything. Re-subscribe to one service at a time as you need to to watch shows you want to watch.
After that, keep track of what you are watching on different services, so that you can know what exactly you are cutting back on when you cut back. Most streaming services are all-you-can-eat smorgasbords with content that generally stays on for a very long time. If you have to deal with a bunch of people in a family, rotating services month-by-month is very hard to coordinate without monthly bitching, but if it is just you or you and your significant other, there is no reason to have more than one streaming service active at any time.
Personally, we tend to over-buy subscription services, just so our family of eight operates smoothly. Still, we have no problem switching secondary services (HBO, Showtime, etc) on/off on a two-months-per-year cycle (you had just better be ready to binge the season of GoT when HBO gets turned on!)
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... which is all I ask of a site called "MacRumors". Sketchy is great, so long as clearly identified as such, as was the case here.
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I don't have an ATV4 in the chain, but that is what we do as well. There is a bit of a kludge factor to it (the phone doing the streaming is basically not to be touched while the video is playing), but I agree it does work reasonably well.
For those who might be doubtful, AirPlay in this instance is using a reference approach; the phone sends the URL to stream from to the AppleTV, which then streams it. You don't end up with all the video bits needing to fly to your phone then back over WiFi to the TV etc. Other than an app not being able to work in any congestion/buffering tricks and having to work with straight commodity AirPlay streaming, it is about the same quality of streaming I would expect from an Amazon app in the ATV.
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Typically something shipped within my own state will always arrive within two days, regardless of the mode of shipping involved. However, if something is shipping across the country two days means it needs to take priority. The USA is a much larger country than UK. Generally, 3-5 business days is considered "normal" with 5-7 being considered "even cheaper / free" tier. I have bought stuff and paid 5-7 day shipping, and pulled it out of my mailbox the next day; you are paying for the "guarantee" not the reality.
That said, most of the time when I buy something on Amazon it is in the "next-day shipping free if you buy $35 or more of stuff" deal. In fact, just put together such a package to order this very day. Those tend to be delivered by a local carrier by 8PM the next night (guy knocks on the door, dogs bark, flip on the porch light and there is a box sitting there). We do have same-day delivery (same by-noon order restriction, deliver by 8PM) pop up less frequently, but not enough that I would call it "many cases" here. And lastly, there are also "Amazon locker" pickups which are oddly more expensive and so I never look twice at them, but I believe they are often same-day pickup.
In any case, it is frankly a miracle that Amazon can offer as much as it does for next-day delivery here in the US. But even 2-day shipping is a massive bonus compared to what we pay for at most stores. That said, often the Amazon price is inflated compared to non-Amazon prices, so it always pays to shop around with shipping costs in mind. As an example, Monoprice has high shipping costs, but the exact same gear there is almost always so much cheaper than Amazon's inflated Monoprice-brand prices that it saves us 20-50% buying direct from MonoPrice and deciding if we need 2-day shipping or not rather than paying Amazon's luxury pricing.
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I used to think the same, until it doesn't, then you just want to launch it in any direction. I got a Firestick cheap last year expecting that to fill the gap & whilst watchable, the interface is mince. Dare I say, like the NowTV app, the Amazon one will probably be a stripped down version of what's currently available, but tbh I'd take that anyday, might even get round to using it a bit more as the ATV4 is my goto box.
quite pathetic that it’s taking Amazon this long to repurpose their ipad app which does the exact same thing. they suck at consumer technology.
Are you still firm on "not happening"? The Apple TV 4K is now listed on Amazon.com. Maybe this rumor isn't so sketchy.
Same here. More often than not, I forget about Amazon Prime shows since there isn't an ATV App. Granted I have watched some shows via my iPad, but still.
Release the app already, Amazon!
Hmm, interesting, I'm guessing you do that to use the ATV 3's optical output?
FYI: "this year" is Amazon's own statement, coming to all ATVs except 1st gen.: (from another thread): #63
Are you allso using twitch, with twitch prime you get a free twitch channel sub ($4.95) andadd free streams (usualy reqires twitch turbo $8.99) total value $13.94, so for twitch users it is kind of s no brainer
Yes and no. I am building out a centralize audio system. Right now the living room audio is wired up but there isn't any video run. So the ATV 4 plugs into the TV via HDMI in the living room and the ATV 3 uses optical to connect to the audio system. Streaming is used to connect the two ATVs without stringing an HDMI cable across the floor.
Now, as of last week I have ended up stringing that HDMI cable across the floor anyway. The iOS 11 update was causing the audio to start skipping. It may be a network issue as I'm currently only running a 2.4 GHz signal and it is an intermittent problem. I also setup a projector at a temporary location (testing throw). So now I have the ATV located with the audio system and an HDMI cable strung across the floor.