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Title: Amazon no longer offers its easy-to-miss Prime Video subscription
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:19:31 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/amazon-no-longer-off...
Amazon appears to have nixed its Prime Video-only plan in the US and UK. Cord
Busters reports that the little-known subscription, introduced in 2016, is no
longer available to new users in either country. Those trying to sign up for
the previously $8.99 monthly plan (£5.99 monthly in the UK) are now directed
to the landing page for a full Amazon Prime membership.
The Prime Video plan launched eight years ago, priced to undercut NetflixΓÇÖs
(at the time) $9.99-a-month subscription price for standard HD streaming on
up to two devices. Although the option stuck around for close to a decade,
Amazon increasingly buried it, making it impossible to sign up for on mobile
devices. It was also increasingly difficult to find on desktops, where you
had to navigate to an easy-to-miss ΓÇ£See more plansΓÇ¥ section of the Prime
sign-up page.
The Prime Video plan never even got a price increase during that time,
further illustrating how obscure Amazon apparently wanted it to remain. Now,
it appears to be gone for good. Cord Busters says it was recently removed in
the US and axed from Amazon UK earlier this week.
Your subscription should still work if youΓÇÖre already on the Prime Video-
only plan. But if you cancel it or switch to the full Prime membership,
donΓÇÖt expect to see an option to return to it.
Engadget reached out to Amazon to ask about the change. WeΓÇÖll update this
article if we hear back.
Prime Video is home to Fallout, which premiered earlier this month. We found
it to be one of the best video game adaptations to date, in the vein of The
Last of Us.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/amazon-no-longer-off...
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