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Amazon Prime Video: how the streaming service that challenges Netflix works and how much it costs

The Amazon service that allows you to watch movies and TV series in streaming has arrived in Italy - It will be "free" for some, for a fee for others - The catalog is extensive, but will be implemented shortly and the contents will be available in various qualities, online and offline. Here's everything you need to know about the Seattle giant's new service.

Amazon Prime Video: how the streaming service that challenges Netflix works and how much it costs

Amazon Prime Video, the Amazon service that allows you to watch movies and TV series in streaming, has arrived in Italy and in 199 other countries around the world. Here too there is only one imperative: to challenge the giants of the sector with a unique and attractive offer capable of conquering millions of viewers.

Amazon Prime video: how it works and who can get it

Through this service, millions of users around the world will have movies and TV series available 24 hours a day to watch in streaming. To access Prime video just connect to the address primevideo.com. But be careful, the offer will primarily concern customers who already have a Prime subscription.

Amazon Prime Video: how much does it cost

As mentioned, the service will be included in the Prime subscription. Customers who already use it will therefore not have to pay even one euro more to watch films and TV series. All the others, in order to take advantage of Amazon's streaming TV, will have to pay. How much? There is a free trial month, after which the offer can be renewed at a cost of 19,99 euros per year.

Amazon Prime Video: the catalogue

Available to Amazon customers will be the TV series produced by the Seattle giant, among which the following stand out: The Grand Tour, Transparent, Mozart in the Jungle, The man in the high castle (based on the novel "The swastika on the sun" by Philip K. Dick). To these will be added children's series such as Creative Galaxy, Gortimer Gibbon's life on Normal Street, Tumble Leaf and Wishenpoof, but also many other films and TV series.

Also coming soon: Crisis in Six Scenes, the TV series by Woody Allen, Goliath by David E. Kelley with Billy Bob Thornton, the docuseries American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story, Sneaky Pete, produced by Bryan Cranston, and Graham Yost, Z: The Beginning of Everything, with Christina Ricci.

Amazon Prime Video: how to watch it

It should be noted that for the moment most of the contents of Amazon Prime Video are in English, but subtitles and dubbing in Italian, French, Portuguese and Spanish are available for part of the catalogue. The "Italian audio movies" category is already present, which will allow you to have a list of all the films available with the Italian localization. Alternatively there are only subtitles (“Italian subtitled movies” or “Italian subtitled TV”).

The service is accessible through the browser, from smartphones and tablets via the app for Android and iOS, or from smart TVs. Viewing is available both online and offline. In streaming, each user can choose whether to enjoy the contents in Good (good quality), Better (higher quality), Best (excellent quality).

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