Prime Video-only subscription: $8.99 per month Monthly Prime subscription: $12.99 per month Yearly Prime subscription: $119 Prime Student: $6.49 per month Prime with Electronic Benefits Transfer or Medicaid cards: $5.99 per month
Once you have chosen your subscription plan, you can now enjoy Prime Video. Aside from ending your subscription, it is also possible to get a refund. This refund is possible if you have not used your benefits after your last membership charge.
Download for offline viewing
Then, select the show or movie that you want to download. For movies, the option to download is on the movie’s detail page. For TV shows, you can download an entire season or individual episodes. To download movies, find the download option on the detail page. To download individual episodes, find the download option beside the episode name. Following this, the app will ask you about where you would like to save the show or movie. You have the option to save it on your mobile devices. But, since shows and movies can take up a lot of space, you can opt to save them on an SD card. Before starting the download, the app will ask you about the quality of the show or movie that you will download. Keep in mind that the file size will increase as the quality increases. Once you have set the video quality, click on Start Download. To see the downloaded shows and movies, find the My Stuff button and press it. Being able to download shows and movies for offline viewing has its benefits. This allows you to access these contents anytime and anywhere. There is no need to worry about the Internet connection when watching these shows and movies. There are no buffering or drops in video quality when watching downloaded content. But, this feature does have its disadvantages. One such disadvantage is storage space. Shows and movies can take up a significant amount of storage space. This is especially true when your downloaded videos are of the highest video quality. It could lead to storage space issues for your mobile devices. Though, this is not much of a problem if your mobile devices come with an SD card. SD cards can provide additional storage space for downloaded content.
Parental controls
After this, you will see the Prime Video PIN setting. This five-digit combination is for authorizing video purchases or rentals. The PIN is also used to bypass any parental control setting on Prime Video. You can set up the Prime Video PIN by pressing on Change. Following the Prime Video PIN setting is the PIN on purchase setting. This allows you to require authentication before purchasing shows and movies. Turning this setting on will require anyone to insert the PIN anytime they are buying a show or movie. There is also a Viewing restrictions setting. The feature allows you to restrict access to shows that do not fall under the allowed age ratings. It will require anyone to insert the PIN if they want to see these restricted shows. The settings have four age ratings: General for all ages, age 7 for family, age 13 for teens and age 18 for mature content. Following this is an option to apply viewing restrictions to devices. This sets on which devices the set viewing restrictions will apply to. You can choose to have the viewing restrictions apply to all devices. You can also set it to only apply on specific devices. The disadvantage of this feature is the requirement to insert the PIN every now and then. This could be a hassle especially if you’re sure with what you’re buying or watching on Prime Video. But, the ability to set which devices to set the restrictions on helps balance this out.
X-ray feature
To access this feature, tap your mobile device’s screen, click up on your TV remote or move the cursor on desktop. This feature is available on mobile devices, TVs and desktops. Information comes from an IMDb integration in the service. This feature is available for a lot of shows and movies. The disadvantages of this feature are its limitations. As it is an IMDb integration, this requires an Internet connection to work. This means that the feature would not work on downloaded content for offline viewing.
Customizable captions
To customize your closed captioning, head to Account & Settings. Then, head to Subtitles and click Edit on Subtitle Preset 1 or 2. Here, you can adjust the captioning’s color, font, font size, background, and others. Once you’ve customized your closed captioning to your liking, press Save. After this, watch any content and activate closed captioning. You do this by pressing the CC button and press Select. You can adjust the caption size or select your caption presets. The benefit of this feature is that it makes an already useful feature more useful. You can adjust the closed caption to fit your preferred watching experience. A variety of options and choices are available for you to use. The possible disadvantage of this is that there might not be a preset caption that would work for you. While it is highly customizable, it is still somewhat limited. There is a possibility that its level of customizability is still not enough to fit one’s tastes.
Rent or buy option
To start renting or buying a movie, find a movie of your choice. After that, you will see an option to Rent or Buy the movie. There are times that a movie will come with more rental options. You will be able to see these options if you press More purchase options. Once you have rented or bought a movie, you can press Watch Now to start watching it. If you are planning to watch the movie later, you can access the movie again by heading to My Stuff. Your rented or bought movie is under Purchases.
Good Omens
The miniseries stars Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale and David Tennant as the demon Crowley. Aziraphale and Crowley both lived on Earth since its creation. They serve as the respective representatives of Heaven and Hell on Earth. Because of this, they had become used to life on Earth and ended up being friends. As the coming of the Antichrist and Armageddon looms, the two work together to prevent this.
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The series stars Rachel Brosnahan who plays as Miriam “Midge” Maisel. Midge is a young, rich Jewish American housewife living in New York in the late ’50s and early ’60s. The story follows Midge’s journey to becoming a comedian. There are other similar streaming apps that you can access. Check out this article on the best free streaming apps for PCs.
