Amazon Prime Video has become rather popular in recent years. In fact, Amazon Prime Video has expanded in terms of its reach. It can easily work on Kindle Fire devices and other Amazon-made products. It is also expected to become even more popular in the future as it continues to get more rights to an extensive variety of entertainment options. The acquisition of the rights to HBO programs in the United States only emphasises this point.
There are a few countries today where you can easily get Amazon Prime Video files. These countries are among the largest ones in the world and show just how Amazon Prime Video is growing in terms of its overall popularity. As of November 2014, there are four major parts of the world where the service can be found used. Don’t be surprised if Amazon Prime Video’s reach goes well beyond those countries very soon.
It should be noted that the annual prices for these services have increased in recent time. This was done as a means of ensuring that Amazon can continue to not only improve the quality of the service but to expand upon the variety of programs that can be streamed on the site at a given time.
United States
People in the United States can easily get access to Amazon Prime Video services. Americans can get access to videos on the Fire HD and Fire TV devices as well as their game consoles and of course over the Amazon website.
The American service is particularly strong due to it’s extensive variety of movies and television shows. The biggest coup for the American part of the service is that people can watch a variety of HBO programs on it. While it is true that it does not cover every single HBO program, it has much better options than any other streaming provider (apart from HBO themselves of course). This can all be accessed for $99 per year.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is the second biggest adopter of Amazon Prime Video. The UK version of the program offers access to tens of thousands of films and television shows. This service is particularly being promoted to people who had the LOVEFiLM streaming service before it was discontinued. This costs £79 per year for all customers while the streaming video-only option without the other Amazon Prime benefits can be found for £5.99 per month. The annual cost increased by £30 recently.
Germany
Germany is the third spot in the world where Amazon Prime Video services can be found. The programming that is available on the German version of the setup is similar to what is on the UK-based edition but there are also a number of added German-language programs available for people to use. Customers can also get videos that feature audio tracks or subtitles that are designed with the German language in mind.
This will cost €49 per year for anyone to get in Germany.
Japan
The last place that people can go to for Amazon Prime Video services is Japan. The service was launched in late 2013 and includes more than twenty thousand movies and television shows with a variety of them coming from Japan. The program originally started with a setup where people would rent individual films; it would cost 100 yen or a little less than one American dollar to rent a movie for twenty-four hours although newer films that were in high demand would cost 500 yen to rent.
There are no annual subscription options available for people to use at this time.
Where Next?
Amazon Prime Video is still relatively young so it is still in a state of massive growth. The popularity of streaming video is only getting bigger so there’s always going to be the potential of more countries getting access soon. Stay tuned!