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[–] [email protected] 220 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Yo ho yo ho.

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

[–] [email protected] 149 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  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
[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I weighed anchor despite paying for Prime for years. For one, you never know when they’ll drop a show, and two I prefer all my media in my polled interface.

I ended up dropping Prime two years ago because Amazon simply can’t hold up their end of their 2 day bargain. I live in a college town and when the school year starts their delivery time stretches to nearly 2 weeks. The rest of the year it fluctuates between 3 and 7 days. That’s not Prime in any way. Of course, without prime, note they wait 3-6 days before even shipping my packages so everything is a week to ten days. OTOH, Walmart - though having a smaller selection- is being me next day service on about 60% of my orders and two day on the rest …for less than half the annual fee.

My only lament is the weird Chinese electronics/components Amazon sellers stock FBA. It doesn’t take me too long to get to $35, but I do miss the $5 impulse buy of small packs of arduino actuators or pneumatic push connectors when inspiration strikes.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still a better UI than Disney+ too

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't realize just how good the Netflix UI was until using Paramount+

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Netflix’s demand to auto-play a trailer/song on every tile make any tv freeze or crash nearly every time I use the Netflix app on it. It’s gotten to the point I’m about to just cancel netflix because I can’t watch it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! Helpful for me, I'm really not into trailers blasting from my speakers when I browse (on my 360 lol).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No problem; glad to be of assistance. :-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Welcome!

Happy new year!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (2 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] 39 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Yeah if you hate immersion it’s great.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year 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] 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Not to mention the shockingly bad picture quality.

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I hit the high seas when they wouldn't let me watch the shit i paid for in high def. Fuck that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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. 

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The UI had a "recent" glow up, it was way worse before.