Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra::Amazon Prime Video has removed Dolby Vision HDR, and Atmos surround sound, unless you pay an extra $2.99 a month for its new ad-free option. The company has confirmed the move.

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[–] 89 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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    [–] 77 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    Mark my words...Amazon is going to experiment with tiering off Prime programs like cable. Want "The Boys?" or "Invincible?" That's the extra tier.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Meanwhile, I'm over here, keeping my money and watching whatever TF I want in higher def and no ads — for free. Fuck you, Amazon.

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    [–] 66 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    With all the streaming options out there it's wild to me that these services continue to be able to jack up their prices. I'm less interested than ever with tolerating their bullshit.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    They jacked up their prices and laid off their long time employees... Like me.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Except they're all pulling the same skeezy shit. Notice that Prime is legit one of the last ones to raise prices, they were waiting for the majority of the market before following suit since literally no one gets Prime just for Prime Video.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My decision to ditch Prime completely is looking more justified every day. So glad they announced all this cancer before my subscription rolled over.

    Fuck off Amazon.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Same. They definitely were on the bubble and about to be cancelled. They had a few good years where video made up for the declining shipping service. Now there's no reason to pay.

    What are you paying for? Shipping is the same without prime, and the video and music products suck. Replaced it with looking elsewhere for cheaper products, which I was already doing.

    Btw, if you want a free trial of Shipt your Visa CC may have one. Search for "Shipt Visa trial" or something.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Oh no, I can't believe I won't be able to watch the two shows that use Dolby Vision anymore.

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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My plex server doesn't 😉

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Is there a word for this? Yanking features from a services so they can be sold to you as an add-on?

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago

    Enshittification

    First, they make a service good for the customer even at a loss so customers don't want to go other places. ✅

    Second, they use the information gathered from you to sell to companies to make money off you. In Amazon's case they are now so big they don't need to sell your info but they do it anyways. ✅

    Third, they screw the companies and the users to make the money all for themselves. In Amazon's case they fuck sellers by making Amazon branded copies of best selling items to cut their third party stores out of business by putting their copies first in the search results.✅

    Read Cory Doctorow's books about enshittification.(also read his fiction, Little Brother, for a great fast paced dystopian terrorist novel.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    First they inject ads unless you pay more, now they reduce quality unless you, again, pay more. Wild that more and more people have reverted to sailing the seas once more, who’d of thought?

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yooo hooo

    all hands

    hoist the colors high

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Fuuuuck Amazon

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh thanks! That explains why my audio was so horrible that I had to turn on subtitles. Good riddance

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    To this day I am still impressed that people pay for prime.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    At one point it wasn't a bad package. Next day delivery, video, music, and even unlimited photo storage backup.

    All of it is now enshittified, nothing more than a gateway to get you to spend more with them.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Who pays for prime video? Literally the worst selection there is

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Radarrrrrrrrrr / Sonarrrrrrrr has 4k and rureoubd tracks…

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    [–] [B] 9 points 2 years ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Amazon has confirmed it’s not a mistake — your Amazon Prime Video subscription no longer includes Dolby Vision HDR or Dolby Atmos surround sound.

    That’s on top of the ads that Amazon injected into the service on January 29th.

    That’s the word from 4KFilme, which discovered that their smart TVs from Sony, LG, and Samsung were now displaying content in HDR10 with Dolby Digital 5.1 as opposed to the higher fidelity options they’d enjoyed previously.

    Amazon spokesperson Katie Barker confirms to The Verge that it’s a deliberate move: “Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos capabilities are only available on the ad free option, on relevant titles.”

    While price hikes are no longer remotely unusual in the streaming video space, where Netflix now charges $22.99 a month for its 4K tier, it’s a bit harder to compare Amazon’s prices to Netflix.

    Prime Video is also available as an $8.99-per-month standalone subscription; if you subscribe that way and add $2.99 per month, it’s more like a 28 percent price hike.


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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I already canceled my prime back when they announced they would put ads on prime video. I don't even use prime video, it's the principle.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Yo HO-h-h-h!

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