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Old 02-01-21 | 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by TheBigDave
What drives me nuts is the Roku menu. They list everything in a straight line. How am I supposed to find anything on My Stuff? Try browsing through 3000+ random titles in a straight line. You can't even sort them by A-Z, Year, or Genre.
Does it go endlessly?

Heck, even on Amazon's own firestick everything listed in a straight line, but they don't go endlessly, eventually it just runs out, even if there are more titles. For instance, you can go to "animation" and only a fraction of titles are listed.
Old 02-01-21 | 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by fujishig
Does it go endlessly?

Heck, even on Amazon's own firestick everything listed in a straight line, but they don't go endlessly, eventually it just runs out, even if there are more titles. For instance, you can go to "animation" and only a fraction of titles are listed.
I don't know if it'll list all 3000+ movies. I give up after scrolling through a few hundred. It only loads a handful at a time. So after about 25 movies, you have to wait for it to load another batch. It would take an hour to browse through my whole library.
Old 02-01-21 | 06:14 PM
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Im sure they get away with it because most people see it as a bonus to prime shipping, but man it is horrible.
Other things which piss me off about the Apple TV Prime app: titles which I have explicitly deleted from Up Next get randomly added back to Up Next. If a title was added to Prime via push from Movies Anywhere then expect dozens of titles being spuriously re-added. There also appears to be no way to disable autoplay. When I am done with the movie or tv episode I'm watching I absolutely do not want the app to autoplay the next episode or movie. The Hulu app has this same deplorable behavior, going so far as to autoplay series that aren't in your Watch Next but it "thinks" you want to see. It kept trying to autoplay Swamp Thing every time I finished watching an episode of Stargirl.
Old 02-03-21 | 03:06 PM
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80's late night show "FRIDAYS" is on Prime. I used to watch it as a kid and enjoyed it. You get to see early Larry David. If nothing else the musical guests were great.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080219/
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Old 02-03-21 | 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Giantrobo
80's late night show "FRIDAYS" is on Prime. I used to watch it as a kid and enjoyed it. You get to see early Larry David. If nothing else the musical guests were great.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080219/
We caught an episode of that because my wife said the same thing, "I used to watch this". I wanted to catch Mark Blankfield because I remembered him from Jekyll and Hyde Together Again. (I know he was in other stuff, but that's what I remember him from.)
This....was not very good. Did like seeing Devo.

Agreed, the Prime Video app is one of the worst streaming apps, whether on Roku, Xbox, or LGTV. At least now they have a 'free for me' callout.
Old 02-03-21 | 03:23 PM
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Yeah, like i said...the musical guests were great.
Old 02-03-21 | 03:38 PM
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We caught an episode of that because my wife said the same thing, "I used to watch this". I wanted to catch Mark Blankfield because I remembered him from Jekyll and Hyde Together Again. (I know he was in other stuff, but that's what I remember him from.)
This....was not very good. Did like seeing Devo.

Agreed, the Prime Video app is one of the worst streaming apps, whether on Roku, Xbox, or LGTV. At least now they have a 'free for me' callout.
In which they include all the imdb tv stuff... argh!
Old 02-03-21 | 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Giantrobo
Yeah, like i said...the musical guests were great.
There are a lot of missing episodes.

Season 1 has 4 out of 12 episodes.
Season 2 has 7 out of 25 episodes.
Season 3 has 4 out of 21 episodes.

I wonder if music rights are the reason. Then again, this is with Prime Canada. Are there more episodes in the U.S. ?
Old 02-03-21 | 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by andicus
There are a lot of missing episodes.

Season 1 has 4 out of 12 episodes.
Season 2 has 7 out of 25 episodes.
Season 3 has 4 out of 21 episodes.

I wonder if music rights are the reason. Then again, this is with Prime Canada. Are there more episodes in the U.S. ?

I think I heard of missing eps here as well.
Old 02-18-21 | 07:34 PM
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Sonic the Hedgehog (included with Prime)
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Old 03-12-21 | 08:41 PM
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True Lies is on Prime. 2.35:1, HD, and 5.1.
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Old 03-12-21 | 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Why So Blu?
True Lies is on Prime. 2.35:1, HD, and 5.1.
Enjoy it while you can. They used to have The Abyss and it looked great. I thought they might finally release it on Blu or UHD. But it's no longer available and a disc never materialized. But it was great seeing it in HD, finally.
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Enjoy it while you can. They used to have The Abyss and it looked great. I thought they might finally release it on Blu or UHD. But it's no longer available and a disc never materialized. But it was great seeing it in HD, finally.

Those two seem to rotate on the streaming sites. Last year they were on HBO before it was HBO MAX. The Abyss was the TC and not the DC, though.
Old 03-17-21 | 11:17 AM
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I watch Amazon Prime on a Roku, so I don't know if this is an Amazon problem or a Roku issue. When I fast-forward a video, there's about a 50% chance it will show the spinning wheel for about 20 seconds, shows me a generic "Something went wrong" window and then bails to the Roku main screen.
Old 03-17-21 | 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevin Phillips
I watch Amazon Prime on a Roku, so I don't know if this is an Amazon problem or a Roku issue. When I fast-forward a video, there's about a 50% chance it will show the spinning wheel for about 20 seconds, shows me a generic "Something went wrong" window and then bails to the Roku main screen.
Can't answer your question because I use an Amazon Fire Stick but I've never had an issue with FF or REV.
Old 03-18-21 | 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Why So Blu?
True Lies is on Prime. 2.35:1, HD, and 5.1.
Yeah watched this a bit ago. Looked pretty good.
Old 03-18-21 | 07:39 PM
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Thursday Night Football Moving From Fox to Amazon Prime in 2023
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Old 03-18-21 | 08:44 PM
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How much does Prime go up?

At least they can do their own ads sales which, hopefully prevents any price increases.
Old 03-19-21 | 05:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Kevin Phillips
I watch Amazon Prime on a Roku, so I don't know if this is an Amazon problem or a Roku issue. When I fast-forward a video, there's about a 50% chance it will show the spinning wheel for about 20 seconds, shows me a generic "Something went wrong" window and then bails to the Roku main screen.
If it persists then try rebooting the Roku. Can’t hurt!
Old 05-06-21 | 06:01 PM
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Saw this over at br.

Following are .99 HD
Jungleland (2020)
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Old 06-02-21 | 02:30 PM
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Prime Member deal:
Soul 4k - $9.99

Have to search for Soul UHD, if you go through the Prime Member deal section it only offers SD/HD.
Old 07-14-21 | 11:08 AM
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https://deadline.com/2021/07/good-ti...ar-1234791354/

The Norman Lear library of sitcoms is going to Prime video and IMDB TV.

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Old 07-14-21 | 11:24 AM
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Tvi?
Old 07-14-21 | 11:25 AM
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Tvi?
What? Can you not do abbreviations. I don’t know what that means.

Edit. I had a typo. It’s IMDb TV.
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Old 07-14-21 | 11:31 AM
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Yeah I was just wondering what’s the I was.


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