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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

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Post by o11c »

bombcar wrote: post #6
1970-01-01 wrote: post #2

5.1 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.

I expect most people use at most a soundbar. Which, regardless of what it advertises, is really just 2-3 channels and maybe a subwoofer.

And the rise of phones means there's a lot of stereo or even mono.

Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Post by basisword »

A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #45
fabian2k wrote: post #26

I canceled Prime after they added ads. I might have canceled it anyway at some point, but this was a very clear and significant reduction in value. They never really competed all that well, but there were some interesting original shows on there that kept me interested enough to keep a subscription. But they were really bad about having the original language audio, and they rotate content out pretty fast, my watchlis…

I respectfully disagree. Amazon became Amazon, because it really did some things well and forced some good standards ( 2 day shipping, almost zero friction when it came to purchases -- and returns ). It is not a horrible experience yet, but the direction is clear.

I think OP is referring specifically to their Prime Video product which is awful compared with every other streaming service both in terms of content available and UI/UX.

Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Post by mdhen »

jeffbee wrote: post #19
dualboot wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not even remotely true. Patriot is amazing.

There is no accounting for taste of course, but this show appears to have a 35% dislike vote fraction among Google users and 68% favorable on Metacritic. Which puts it objectively well below other Prime shows that I personally think are extremely bad, such as Reacher and Jack Ryan.

Patriot is amazing. One of the best black comedys ever made.

Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Post by JoshTriplett »

zelos wrote: post #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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandu...

Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Post by cma »

samtho wrote: post #47
sleepybrett wrote: post #32

Technical question, a typical 2 hour movie represents how many bytes of stereo audio signal, how many bytes if atmos. How many streams served with stereo, how many with 5.1/atmos/whatever. Are they actually saving any real money here or is it just a pain point to milk the whales? I'd be willing to bet that 80%+ of households don't even have equipment that can properly render atmos or even 5.1.

Its amusing to think that part of this decision is to save on bandwidth costs.

Maybe if their egress prices were based on real costs

Re: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

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Post by nytesky »

sleepybrett wrote: post #18
dualboot wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not even remotely true. Patriot is amazing.

Also 'The Boys' is quite popular, 'Bosch' and 'Reacher' are very popular.. there are a few others that do well. If you are old enough think back to the haydays of the network television evening programming. There were hits, there were misses, there was tons of stuff in between. For every 'Friends' there is a 'Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place'.

2GGPP launched Ryan Reynolds and Nathan Fillian and Susan Cryer from Silicon Valley. It’s a bit of a gem in its own way
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