Amazon Prime Instant Video signs new license agreement with NBCUniversal
Amazon.com continues to sign new license agreements and bolstering their online streaming catalogue. With the latest deal, Prime Instant Video will have more than 9,000 movies and tv shows available to stream to subscribers.
Amazon.com now has a licensing agreement with NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution that allows Amazon Prime members to stream select Universal Pictures movies through Prime Instant Video.
Amazon Instant Video offers customers more than 90,000 movies and TV shows available to purchase or to rent and, with this Universal content included, the streaming service will offer more than 9,000 movies and TV shows at no additional cost for those with an Amazon Prime membership. Customers can watch movies and TV shows from Amazon on a Mac, PC or directly on TV with any of 300 compatible devices.
Amazon Prime customers will be able to watch popular Universal movies at no additional cost to their membership. Titles include “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Elizabeth” and “Gosford Park.” For the younger set, there’s “Babe,” “Flipper” and “Jetsons – The Movie” as well as other favorites like “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” “Notting Hill,” “Being John Malkovich.” “Fletch” and “Billy Elliott.”
Says Cameron Janes, director of Amazon Instant Video, “Our customers love movies, and now we offer them more than 2,000 movies to choose from with Prime Instant Video.”
As part of a LG BD690 Review
As part of a LG BD690 Review I’m working on, I’ve also been doing quite a bit of testing of the Amazon VOD app. As a teaser, I have to plug the BBC Yellowstone series. Free for Amazon Prime members, in “HD” (I’ll explain the quotes in my review). If you don’t have the time to watch it, at the very least fast-forward to the 30 minute mark in the Winter show and watch a Red Fox catch a mouse through 6ft of snow:
Pretty amazing footage. (I brought up the status bar for the picture) The entire show is definitely worth watching.
with this Universal content
These 2 quotes from the article don’t quite mesh up. Anyone with Prime able to confirm if the 9,000 new movies are available for free?
oliverredfox wrote:These 2
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These 2 quotes from the article don’t quite mesh up. Anyone with Prime able to confirm if the 9,000 new movies are available for free?
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There are currently 2,179 movies available. I don’t believe the Universal content has been added yet. When it is the number will be 9,000? At least that is how I take the quote
Yeah, i took it that now they
Yeah, i took it that now they only have 2,000 movies but with the addition of nbcu that number would go up. In the 2000 number i dont believe they are including television shows. So if you factor everything together they will have over 9,000 streaming items