Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs
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Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs
#25.1 audio channels is all you really need.
Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs
#3I'd really like for regulators to look at Apple and Amazon and their interest in the film business.
Both of these are propped up on the profits of unrelated business units and offered below cost to viewers.
This behavior has led to existing film studios folding and getting bought out by these giants.
Now they're jacking up prices to healthy levels. They literally just ate an entire unrelated industry because of their scale.
They should be split up again.
Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs
#4I'd really like for regulators to look at Apple and Amazon and their interest in the film business. Both of these are propped up on the profits of unrelated business units and offered below cost to viewers. This behavior has led to existing film studios folding and getting bought out by these giants. Now they're jacking up prices to healthy levels. They literally just ate an entire unrelated industry because of their…
Can you elaborate on this a bit? The pricing for the services seem to be in-line with the rest of the industry[1], and I'm not aware of any "block buster" TV Shows or Movies released on either Prime Video nor AppleTV (in fact, Prime Video has one of the biggest TV failures of all time[2] under it's belt, titled "Citadel").
> This behavior has led to existing film studios folding and getting bought out by these giants.
Netflix, Paramount and the rest are swallowing up small productions too.
From an industry-outsider's perspective - now seems to be the best time in history for small, quirky, weird, niche productions to get in front of huge viewership numbers.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/29/amazon-...
[2] https://gamerant.com/citadel-prime-video-expensive-failure-e...
Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs
#5I’m letting my Prime lapse for the first time in well over a decade. I don’t watch Prime Video much, but this rubbed me the wrong way when they’re making money hand-over-fist on top of recent Prime increases.
Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs
#65.1 audio channels is all you really need.
I would be interested to know the actual audio setup of most video watching ...
I suspect that even if you ignore whatever (probably huge?) percentage is on mobile, that much of it comes out of whatever TV speakers are being used.
Even my 7.1 receiver is down to a single laughable channel, because I've not been arsed to fully set it up and a wire is loose.
Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs
#7> The Rings of Power... now in HDR10+ for ad-tier users.
I'm not sure even the power of Dolby Vision could make Rings of Power worth watching, though.
Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs
#8I'd really like for regulators to look at Apple and Amazon and their interest in the film business. Both of these are propped up on the profits of unrelated business units and offered below cost to viewers. This behavior has led to existing film studios folding and getting bought out by these giants. Now they're jacking up prices to healthy levels. They literally just ate an entire unrelated industry because of their…
Can you elaborate on this a bit? The pricing for the services seem to be in-line with the rest of the industry[1], and I'm not aware of any "block buster" TV Shows or Movies released on either Prime Video nor AppleTV (in fact, Prime Video has one of the biggest TV failures of all time[2] under it's belt, titled "Citadel"). > This behavior has led to existing film studios folding and getting bought out by these giants…
Disney did a few "direct to Disney+" releases (and eventually on DVD, Blurry, etc). The third Hotel Transylvania movie was direct to Prime (Amazon bought it fully made).
Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs
#9I'd really like for regulators to look at Apple and Amazon and their interest in the film business. Both of these are propped up on the profits of unrelated business units and offered below cost to viewers. This behavior has led to existing film studios folding and getting bought out by these giants. Now they're jacking up prices to healthy levels. They literally just ate an entire unrelated industry because of their…
Prime Video wasn't a loss leader in order to jack up prices later, it was a loss leader for Bezos to date actresses.
Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs
#10> The Rings of Power... now in HDR10+ for ad-tier users. I'm not sure even the power of Dolby Vision could make Rings of Power worth watching, though.
This is the real problem with Prime Video. The first party content is terrible.