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Originally Posted by Junket
I thought his assessment of Prime video was generous. The prime video selection is terrible. Yes there is quite a bit of content but the gaps and obvious omissions make this a poor choice compared to.. well just about anyone else.
Prime music is a little more even but it also suffers badly when compared to Deezer, Spotify, Pandora or most other vendors.
Not recommended.
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Prime Music is included with Prime, and doesn’t have ads. That is the selling point.
Amazon Music (now with ‘HD’ streaming option) is as good as any other paid service in in terms of selection, and there’s a discounted rate for Prime members. It now has a ‘free’ tier with ads that appears to be what you get with Prime without ads. That said I would go with Spotify or Apple Music if you are going to pay for it. I don’t think Amazon does very much active ‘curation’ of playlists and their iOS app doesn’t get much attention (it took them months to fix iOS 13 crashes, which appeared in the earliest betas and IIRC persisted several weeks after it released - it was the only app I had iOS 13 issues with). Both of those integrate very will with Echo if that’s in your home.
The original content on Prime Video is pretty good for the most part, some Emmy and Golden Globe and Oscar worthy. But you have to be a Prime member to view it (do they rent or sell to non Prime Amazon customers?). Netflix must have 20x more original content, and increasingly that is more of what is worth watching there. The third party content comes and goes on both and Netflix is much deeper with worthy content. But again Prime Video is bundled with Prime. If it were unbundled for $5/month, would it be worth it? Probably not, except for binge-and-cancel.