• roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yo ho yo ho.

    I don’t understand how people paying for prime can stand that crappy prime video UI anyway.

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      1 year ago
      1. it’s basically fine and unoffensive ui to 99.9% of people
      2. people see it as functionally free because they bought prime for free delivery
      3. People don’t know how to pirate
      • rizoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I’m deep into the seven seas but I still use prime because a family member pays for it. Its a decent enough ui and has some live stuff I can throw on to keep kids entertained. However, I’ve already added the shows I watch on prime to my jellyfin server just because this change is going to make me not want to use it anymore.

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        Yep. I don’t consider it as a valuable streaming platform. If they removed it from the general prime I would not buy it separately.

      • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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        I can understand 1 and 2, although, for 3, even though, most of my (nontechie) friends don’t know how to pirate, they know how to look up grey streaming sites like 123movies, sflix, fmovies, etc

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        I’m a shameless sailor but my wife has it for the free shipping.

        Their menus are ass but I really like the actual player ui. Love pausing and seeing who is in the scene.

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        I can’t agree with #1. The interface is that of Amazon’s regular storefront and it often mixes paid media in with the free stuff or has stupid stuff like seasons 2, 4, & 6 being free while 1, 3, & 5 are paid. Maybe it’s different in the TV apps, but the browser version is atrocious.

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      The player interface is excellent. Being able to see who the actors are in each scene is one of my favorite UI features.

      I agree that finding a thing you want to watch is meh at best. Especially because they mix in rentals, purchasable content, and prime content all in the home interface window.

      That said, yo ho matey.

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        They also have a ton of subtitles and audio options. Like a shit ton.

        Meanwhile Netflix most times doesn’t even have subtitles in one or more of the official languages where I live. And for sure they could have more, considering where they operate, they just choose not to.

        However prime UI sucks for splitting shows between seasons so they get recommended multiple times. It just makes no sense

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        Poster might be describing how fucking awful Prime arranges shit on a Fire stick. Search taking you to specific episodes rather than to the show. Seasons split up into mini seasons 201, 202, 203, 204. Kids shows are the worst, sometimes the seasons are split into different show listings.

        It’s truly impressive how a huge corporation can build the shittiest UI of them all.

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      When I still was paying for prime (cancelled it last price increase) I was pirating any prime videos as that was easier than dealing with the shitty prime video UI.

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      Not to mention the shockingly bad picture quality.

      The 4k stuff isn’t terrible, but anything that’s in HD is bloody awful.

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      I originally started paying for prime for the free shipping. Prime video is a perk as far as I’m concerned. I haven’t re-evaluated it in a long time though to see if it’s worth it. I do order a ton of stuff on amazon since I live 160km from the nearest city.

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      I pay for Amazon prime. The only time I watch Prime Video is every once in a while I wonder: is Stargate: Universe as terrible as I remember? And then I try watching it and remember that it is. 

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        I honestly thought it wasn’t terrible and would have benefitted from fleshing out the rest of the story. It was definitely a huge departure from the styling of SGU and Atlantis but not horrible on its own.