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Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, X-ray is a fantastic feature. I have to give them that. The rest of it is trash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah if you hate immersion it’s great.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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.