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quote:In a press release, May joked: ‘We have become part of the new age of smart TV. Ironic, isn't it?’ And Hammond added: ‘Amazon? Oh yes. I have already been there. I got bitten by a bullet ant.’
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 14:49 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 08:58 |
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I hope they trash on the BBC constantly in the new show. Good riddance.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 15:11 |
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I think Netflix made a huge blunder by not picking them up. Regardless I've got a prime account ready to go.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 15:14 |
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As an American with a Prime account this brings me much joy.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 15:39 |
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Free two day shipping and access to a terrible car show, Amazon will be getting all of my 55 gallon drum lube orders now.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 16:01 |
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As a Prime haver this is neat, although Amazon insisting I buy a Kindle or iPad to watch Prime streaming on a tablet is dumb as hell. Netflix made a big mistake that they missed Top Gear guys because this is the exclusive thing that will probably make a comparative streaming alternative to Netflix.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 16:09 |
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I had not even heard of Amazon Prime as a streaming service before this, so it's good advertising too. Not available in the Netherlands though, unlike Netflix...
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 16:20 |
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KakerMix posted:As a Prime haver this is neat, although Amazon insisting I buy a Kindle or iPad to watch Prime streaming on a tablet is dumb as hell. Prime video works on any Android tablet, has for about 6 months now.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 16:34 |
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Amazon doesn't even offer streaming in my country and won't accept my credit card to pay for it. Piracy for me.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 16:35 |
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Industry paper article on the Amazon deal: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/andy-wilman-lifts-bonnet-on-top-gear-teams-amazon-deal/5091110.article Broadcast posted:Andy Wilman lifts bonnet on Top Gear team’s Amazon deal
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 16:36 |
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sbaldrick posted:Amazon doesn't even offer streaming in my country and won't accept my credit card to pay for it. The article said that in locations where Prime streaming wasn't available, they were going to try to work out local TV distribution.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 16:36 |
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Industry paper article on the Amazon deal: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/andy-wilman-lifts-bonnet-on-top-gear-teams-amazon-deal/5091110.article I hope one of the job requirements for their production manager is "Able to take a slap/punch to the face without flinching."
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 16:39 |
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bull3964 posted:The article said that in locations where Prime streaming wasn't available, they were going to try to work out local TV distribution. Given that I live in Canada I don't think that will happen.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 16:39 |
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Great news. Except that the Amazon streaming sucks out here due to poor internet quality in the evenings.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 16:51 |
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Not being able to use prime with my Chromecast is extremely irritating.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 17:00 |
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Holy loving hell, between this and Man in the High Castle, I think it's time I signed up for Prime.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 17:03 |
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CornHolio posted:Holy loving hell, between this and Man in the High Castle, I think it's time I signed up for Prime. Sure as poo poo, the Amazon special sale wasn't worth signing up for.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 17:12 |
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Didn't amazon also by Twitch? Pump it out over that.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 17:41 |
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Industry paper article on the Amazon deal: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/andy-wilman-lifts-bonnet-on-top-gear-teams-amazon-deal/5091110.article So its over a year away if its coming Autumn 2016. The revamped Top Gear on the BBC is likely to be before that. Also on the issue of Top Gear there has been significant murmurings Jenson Button has been signed as one of the presenters, he is out of contract in F1 next year and while Williams has been after him reportedly, I could well see him just calling it time on F1 and move into TV given how poo poo his car has been this year.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 17:48 |
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Just saw the news about the Amazon deal, that's pretty cool and I'm happy they found a solution (though I wish Hannibal would too). This reminded me that I never looked into how the whole BBC thing concluded - did anything worthwhile come out of that mess?
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 18:08 |
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I've been streaming a few shows off of Prime recently and honestly the player/quality is absolute poo poo compared to Netflix, but whatever it's the content I'm looking for.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 18:16 |
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tuna posted:I've been streaming a few shows off of Prime recently and honestly the player/quality is absolute poo poo compared to Netflix, but whatever it's the content I'm looking for. Best way of watching Prime is via one of the Amazon Fire TV sticks, there the quality and the UI are as good as Netflix. They were on sale in the UK on prime day for £19 and are great for watching Prime and TVMC. Price in US is $40 I think.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 18:20 |
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ukle posted:Best way of watching Prime is via one of the Amazon Fire TV sticks, there the quality and the UI are as good as Netflix. They were on sale in the UK on prime day for £19 and are great for watching Prime and TVMC. Price in US is $40 I think. I have one for the bedroom and it stutters quite a lot (although I usually use it to watch Netflix). I watch the rest of the stuff on Prime web player and it usually defaults to "Lowest quality" SD despite having 50mbit connection and when I unpause it, one in three times it will randomly skip forwards 20 minutes to whatever most inconvenient spoiler there is. The general interface is also kind of clunky and you have to re-find what you were previously watching and navigate to the right season/episode, etc. YMMV of course because this could come down to many factors but whatever I'm still happy that it's going to Amazon.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 18:31 |
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bull3964 posted:Prime video works on any Android tablet, has for about 6 months now. Shows how much attention I have payed to Prime streaming
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 18:50 |
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Glad it will be on prime, more reason to keep my Kindle Fire HDX other then the absurd number of books on it. Not sure if the Fire stick does it, but on the HDX if a show doesn't have a cold open and just goes straight into an intro sequence typically the player will automatically skip it, which is nice not having to manually scroll through it with my fat finger messing it up and jumping too far ahead.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 18:53 |
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tuna posted:I have one for the bedroom and it stutters quite a lot (although I usually use it to watch Netflix). I watch the rest of the stuff on Prime web player and it usually defaults to "Lowest quality" SD despite having 50mbit connection and when I unpause it, one in three times it will randomly skip forwards 20 minutes to whatever most inconvenient spoiler there is. The general interface is also kind of clunky and you have to re-find what you were previously watching and navigate to the right season/episode, etc. Never had the slightest issues at all streaming prime on my TV (on pretty much any app I have that uses it). It actually seems to ramp up to the highest HD quality faster than netflix does.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 19:22 |
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OptimusMatrix posted:Not being able to use prime with my Chromecast is extremely irritating. I thought the same, but then I got a Fire TV stick and it took over the majority of my Chromecast usage. It still supports "cast" style usage from most of the same apps, but also has a remote and can run actual local programs including Kodi (formerly XBMC). It's a full Android device. of course with the Amazon flavor of Android rather than Google's. Both Fire TV stick and Chromecast are due for updates though so I'd hold off until closer to the start of the show. Chromecast 2 is supposedly going more full featured to compete with the Fire stick, possibly under the Android TV branding, and the Fire TV Stick 2 has already been seen in benchmarks with MUCH faster processor. wolrah fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Jul 30, 2015 |
# ? Jul 30, 2015 20:31 |
the most important question of all though is who will people complain to when they're offended? i assume amazon will tell them to piss up a rope and there isn't any higher authority that governs them is there? you mark my words, this will be the start of our society's decay
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 21:13 |
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Two Finger posted:the most important question of all though is who will people complain to when they're offended? i assume amazon will tell them to piss up a rope and there isn't any higher authority that governs them is there? I think a lot of wind is taken away from the people that would normaly bitch about ~offensive~ formely Top Gear crew because they are not a part of the BBC anymore. Seems like the BBC connection gave people the gusto they needed to bitch so freely.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 21:13 |
in all honesty i was impressed the bbc protected them for as long as it did, they pissed off some very vocal groups of people over a very long period of time i'll admit i'm not british though so maybe the british attitude was different to that here in nz, where they probably would have been gone in no time
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 21:16 |
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Two Finger posted:in all honesty i was impressed the bbc protected them for as long as it did, they pissed off some very vocal groups of people over a very long period of time They made he BBC a lot of money
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 21:22 |
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This might cause some interesting fallout. There was a lot of fuss about Amazon not paying their taxes in the UK, with a lot of "common folk" calling them on their bullshit. Now the self same people will have to pay Amazon to get their fix of Clarkson.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 21:23 |
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Two Finger posted:in all honesty i was impressed the bbc protected them for as long as it did, they pissed off some very vocal groups of people over a very long period of time For all their vocality, I'm afraid the Morris Marina Owners Club was not very influential.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 21:42 |
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Rogers will pick this up for Canada. Probably drop it on a third tier cable channel so you need to pay max bucks to pick it up. gently caress Canadian Cable companies and their bought and paid for government lackeys. Vvv I mean it will go on a specialty Discovery Channel or another one rogers owns (Sportsnet World!), I don't think amazon would be too happy if they only broadcasted in Ontario. Jonny Nox fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jul 30, 2015 |
# ? Jul 30, 2015 21:46 |
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Jonny Nox posted:Rogers will pick this up for Canada. Probably drop it on a third tier cable channel so you need to pay max bucks to pick it up. Agreed. I don't even have Rogers or cable so I'm forced into not watching (lol not).
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 21:56 |
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Jonny Nox posted:Rogers will pick this up for Canada. Probably drop it on a third tier cable channel so you need to pay max bucks to pick it up. Or worse, Rogers will secure exclusive rights in Canada and put it behind a second subscription paywall, like how they handle the WWE Network, then sell access to other cable providers like Shaw who'll then pass that cost along to their customers. Hope everyone has Crave or Shomi or whatever.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 22:04 |
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Delsaber posted:Or worse, Rogers will secure exclusive rights in Canada and put it behind a second subscription paywall, like how they handle the WWE Network, then sell access to other cable providers like Shaw who'll then pass that cost along to their customers. Hope everyone has Crave or Shomi or whatever. Are Crave and Shomi still exclusive to cable subscribers? Because that's some bullshit.
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 22:06 |
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I too would have preferred it to be under the Netflix umbrella I'm already paying for, but I'm willing to pay for more Top Gear, either on a per-episode/per-series basis, or coughing up the money for a general Prime membership (It's £79 a year here, so 25% more expensive than the US). Does anyone know if the US and other Amazon locales differ greatly in their streaming content?
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 22:13 |
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I have a prime account I may be willing to share with another US Person (if it matters??)
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# ? Jul 30, 2015 22:35 |