Prime streaming, now with commercials [message #97498] |
Mon, 11 March 2024 04:27 |
Leot55
Messages: 226 Registered: June 2017
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Is anyone else seeing commercials while watching Prime Video? Amazon keeps telling me that I need to pay a few bucks each month to make them go away. Does that mean that Amazon cancelled my Prime subscription, or is this simply a new thing that Amazon is doing? Is there a way to make the ads disappear without paying a monthly fee? If you're wondering why I haven't asked their customer service department instead of asking here, it's because their chat agent button and customer service number are nowhere to be found. Amazon takes me to their FAQ page when I request help. It's an endless loop.
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Re: Prime streaming, now with commercials [message #97501 is a reply to message #97499] |
Mon, 11 March 2024 13:11 |
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Wayne Parham
Messages: 18782 Registered: January 2001
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Yeah, I remember when Amazon announced that. It's like three bucks a month or something. They also seem to have a lot more content that requires payment or an external subscription than they used to have. Death by a thousand cuts.
I guess it's like most everything else. A decade ago, "cable cutting" really saved some cash. You could cancel your cable TV and go streaming and save probably a hundred bucks a month. Lots of streaming content was free, and the paid services like Netflix were pretty cheap. The only catch was you needed to have a really good internet connection to get good video content, especially on multiple televisions throughout the house. So back then, your video streaming cost was mostly the cost of your internet connection, with maybe a little more for any subscription you might choose.
But now, I think we're drifting back to something similar to the old cable TV model, where you pay for every premium network as a streaming service. The costs are about the same too. It doesn't take long to add up - just a few networks and you're up to the cost of the old cable service you got away from a decade or so ago.
I kinda miss the old three-network rabbit-ear days.
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