Amazon has finally brought its video-on-demand streaming service, Amazon Prime, to India. Including India, Amazon Prime Video is now available in more than 200 countries, making its global reach much higher than that of Netflix, which added 130 countries to its kitty back in January.
India has suddenly become a hotbed for video streaming services, which now include both global and native streaming companies. With Amazon Prime in the fray, we now have two global streaming giants battling it out for the average Indian to binge watch over their newfound 4G connections and unlimited broadband plans.
Here’s a quick review of the service!
Pricing : Right now the best part about Amazon Prime is its pricing. If you are an Amazon Prime member, not only can you enjoy exclusive deals and free deliveries on the ecommerce platform, you can also start using Amazon Prime Video right away. Amazon is offering a free 30-day trial for Prime, after which users of the service will be charged Rs. 499 per annum. This brings the monthly cost to Rs. 42. With the Prime subscription in your pocket, you can access Amazon Prime Videos on 3 screens at the same time. The price for Prime membership is set to go up to Rs. 999 per annum in the future and as of now, there are no separate pricing plans for varying streaming quality.
Content : At first glance, Amazon Prime Video seems to have a bunch of recent Hindi movie titles such as Sultaan, Raaz Reboot, Shaandaar, Dil Dhadakne Do, etc. This is thanks to Amazon’s deal with Dharma Productions, T-Series and others. It even has a decent collection of English movies and Amazon exclusive TV shows, like the wildly popular auto show Grand Tour, award winning series Transparent, and more.
App : Unlike what most news articles are telling you, the Amazon Prime Video app is hard to access. It’s all hunky dory for Android users, but iOS users in India can still not spot the app on the App Store. Now, this could be because of the recent App Store outage, which Apple says has been fixed now. When we tried downloading the Prime Video app on an iPhone 7, we could not find it in the app store. However, a link through the Amazon app directed us to an App Store download link of the same, thereby allowing us to download the app. Very Strange! The UI seems beautiful and really easy to use.
We haven’t yet tried using the service but this is definitely a revolution as one can expect seeing their favorite English TV shows and music videos in the near future. As we expect Amazon to add more quality content soon, we would recommend to get a high end broadband connection if this excites you too much because we heard that 1 hour of HD streaming of content would consume as high as 6GBs. Though it’s too early to expect so much but the advancements happening are worth appreciation!
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