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Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Originally Posted by dex14
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Standalone already exists.
no standalone option for shipping alone, though that’s a different topic unrelated to streaming. |
Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Originally Posted by DJariya
(Post 14367523)
I pay yearly and it’s a business expense for me. And I do watch Freevee shows like Leverage and Bosch Legacy and the commercials don’t bother me. They are at most 60 to 70 seconds.
When I watched Bosch: Legacy only the first one or two commercials were about a minute. There were usually at least 2 3-minute commercial segments per episode. Quite annoying, and it really angers me that a paid service like Prime Video is essentially becoming FreeVee. Even worse, paying this new fee (which will surely increase at an astonishing rate, on top of Prime itself which has gotten much more expensive in recent years to pay for an NFL deal I don't care about or watch) for commercial-free Prime Video still doesn't get us commercial-free FreeVee. |
Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Originally Posted by randian
(Post 14367532)
I'm curious how you justify writing off Amazon Prime to the IRS, considering that most of the benefit of Prime is obviously personal, like Prime Video, Amazon Pharmacy, and Groceries.
Technically, you're supposed to figure out how much was used for business vs personal, and deduct just that portion. Prime is odd though, since you can't get just the 2-day shipping, so the other parts could be considered free "perks" included in the fee. https://www.hawkinsash.cpa/home-offi...usiness-money/ https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/b...ats-deductible |
Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
I got the email:
Dear Prime member, We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting January 29, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements. This will allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time. We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership. We will also offer a new ad-free option for an additional $2.99 per month* that you can sign up for here. Prime is a very compelling value. Prime members enjoy a wide range of shopping, savings, and entertainment benefits, including:
As mentioned above, no action is required from you. If you wish to sign up for the ad-free option, you can click here. And, as always, if you have questions about your Prime membership, you can manage your account here. Thank you for being a valued member of Amazon Prime. Sincerely, The Amazon Prime team *Live event content such as sports, and content offered through Amazon Freevee will continue to include advertising |
Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Originally Posted by randian
(Post 14367532)
I'm curious how you justify writing off Amazon Prime to the IRS, considering that most of the benefit of Prime is obviously personal, like Prime Video, Amazon Pharmacy, and Groceries. It isn't like AWS, which is rather clearly business.
When I watched Bosch: Legacy only the first one or two commercials were about a minute. There were usually at least 2 3-minute commercial segments per episode. Quite annoying, and it really angers me that a paid service like Prime Video is essentially becoming FreeVee. Even worse, paying this new fee (which will surely increase at an astonishing rate, on top of Prime itself which has gotten much more expensive in recent years to pay for an NFL deal I don't care about or watch) for commercial-free Prime Video still doesn't get us commercial-free FreeVee. Prime Video and FreeVee are two completely separate businesses with separate budgets and different streams of revenue. Paying for Prime video doesn’t entitle you to the same perks for a separate business. Even though they are owned by the same company. It’s like CBS and Paramount ,while under the same corporation, are two completely different businesses. |
Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Originally Posted by Jay G.
(Post 14367543)
Technically, you're supposed to figure out how much was used for business vs personal, and deduct just that portion.
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Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Originally Posted by randian
(Post 14367593)
If you're going to do that is the business fraction based on order count or order value? Just thinking out loud. Certainly easier to just take the write-off in full and and hope the auditor doesn't doesn't ask about it.
Now back to you all being angry about streaming commercials. ;) |
Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Got the email about ads coming to Prime Video too. Kind of a bummer but I don’t use the service that much to justify paying for no ads.
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Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Originally Posted by Dan
(Post 14367529)
ah, so it does, for Prime Video.
no standalone option for shipping alone, though that’s a different topic unrelated to streaming. |
Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Originally Posted by Mike86
(Post 14367621)
Got the email about ads coming to Prime Video too. Kind of a bummer but I don’t use the service that much to justify paying for no ads.
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Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
I've gotten used to watching TV without commercials. I tried watching Bosch: Legacy but the commercials put me off. I'd cancel Amazon Prime but you don't get a prorated refund so I'll wait until August. I live in a small town and buy most stuff that's not groceries from Amazon but it's pretty easy to get to $35 or whatever to get free shipping. I'll put the $139 a year to Britbox or something that's ad-free.
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Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Originally Posted by DeFan
(Post 14368702)
I've gotten used to watching TV without commercials. I tried watching Bosch: Legacy but the commercials put me off. I'd cancel Amazon Prime but you don't get a prorated refund so I'll wait until August. I live in a small town and buy most stuff that's not groceries from Amazon but it's pretty easy to get to $35 or whatever to get free shipping. I'll put the $139 a year to Britbox or something that's ad-free.
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Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
This starts Feb 5th, in Canada.
It feels like this is a fundamental change to something I've already paid for, considering my current membership isn't up until July. I don't doubt they have ensured it's legal, based on wording in the terms of service, or something, but it stinks. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainmen...-ads-1.7070706 |
Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
I guess Jeff Bozos needs another trip to the moon or something.
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Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
I'm a pessimist when it comes to streaming. Amazon Prime is going to become FreeVee so why bother to subscribe. Netflix keeps upping the rate for ad-free. Roku is pushing their Live TV but I had to watch (and not listen) to 10 minutes of commercials to see the ball drop at Times Square. Then it was so poorly filmed that it didn't even look like the ball dropping.
I'm also mad about Amazon changing the rules halfway through my subscription but it's money down the drain that can be corrected when I don't renew. |
Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Originally Posted by DeFan
(Post 14369166)
I'm a pessimist when it comes to streaming. Amazon Prime is going to become FreeVee so why bother to subscribe. Netflix keeps upping the rate for ad-free. Roku is pushing their Live TV but I had to watch (and not listen) to 10 minutes of commercials to see the ball drop at Times Square. Then it was so poorly filmed that it didn't even look like the ball dropping.
I'm also mad about Amazon changing the rules halfway through my subscription but it's money down the drain that can be corrected when I don't renew. Agreed about Amazon. It just feels wrong... |
Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
I hope the ads aren’t as bad as paramounts. Their ads of late have been awfully long, and he just watched the halo series and about half the episodes had 60-90 sec ads play when there was 30 seconds left of the show left before credits.
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Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
I can't imagine the ad network will be that much different from Freevee so try that out if you want to see what it'll be like (at least to start, like youtube it will become worse and worse over time)
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Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Originally Posted by bchbdaddy
(Post 14370048)
I hope the ads aren’t as bad as paramounts. Their ads of late have been awfully long, and he just watched the halo series and about half the episodes had 60-90 sec ads play when there was 30 seconds left of the show left before credits.
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Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Originally Posted by bchbdaddy
(Post 14370048)
I hope the ads aren’t as bad as paramounts. Their ads of late have been awfully long, and he just watched the halo series and about half the episodes had 60-90 sec ads play when there was 30 seconds left of the show left before credits.
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/ent...es-limited-ads |
Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Originally Posted by TheBang
(Post 14370844)
"starting in early 2024, Prime Video shows and movies will include limited advertisements. We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers."
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/ent...es-limited-ads |
Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
They'll keep slowly increasing ad time until they see a net profit loss in total subscribers. Losing cheaper and/or poorer subscribers is almost a bonus on some level - fewer server expenses.
Amazon has picked up many of the executives who ran Costco for years. Once you know that, you know what you're dealing with and where Amazon is headed. |
Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
(Post 14371840)
They'll keep slowly increasing ad time until they see a net profit loss in total subscribers. Losing cheaper and/or poorer subscribers is almost a bonus on some level - fewer server expenses.
Amazon has picked up many of the executives who ran Costco for years. Once you know that, you know what you're dealing with and where Amazon is headed. Whats wrong with Costco? |
Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
As you navigate out of the app, some guy will stop you and try to sell you solar.
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Re: The Amazon Prime Streaming Thread
Yeah, I was trying to think how Costco started nickel and diming people but I'm not aware of anything besides maybe restricting food court access to members?
Bottom line is that it started as an add on to their shipping services, they started spending a lot of money on it to make it a standalone service (which I wasn't even aware of for the longest time) and now they are removing the "perks" of the automatic inclusion on their shipping service. I guess they assume for most people that have Prime, another 36 a year increase was going to lose them more subscriptions then doing this (or they wanted a better trained ad network). |
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