How To Set Up Amazon Prime Tv On My Tv

(Pocket-lint) - Amazon's video streaming Amazon Video is the main global rival to Netflix, and like its peer information technology offers Tv shows and movies to watch instantly on an cyberspace-continued device.

Amazon invests fortunes in original Television content, and also covers sports sectional to the platform, so y'all need a subscription to access them. The near recent announcement is that the entire James Bail collection is coming to Prime Video.

If y'all want to watch those or any of the thousands of other programmes or films, this is all that yous need to know - including how to get it on your Tv.

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What is Amazon Video and how much does information technology cost?

Amazon Video is the name given to Amazon's Tv show and moving picture streaming application and service available on multiple devices. It comprises two elements: there are thousands of films and Tv box-sets to rent or purchase digitally, which you pay for on an ad hoc basis; at that place is also Amazon Prime Video, a subscription service that offers thousands of other TV shows and movies to scout as function of Prime membership.

Prime content is clearly marked as such, and much of the TV programming bachelor is homegrown. Amazon Originals is the name of the many series made past Amazon itself, plus localised exclusives, such as Vikings and Mr Robot, that might be screened on TV in the US but are first bachelor to Prime number members in the UK, for example.

You can either gain access to Prime Video through an Amazon Prime membership, which costs $119 (or £79 in the Britain) a year or $12.99 (£7.99) a month. Or can pay $viii.99 a month (£5.99) in the UK for only Prime number Video access. A 30-day trial of Amazon Prime is available for new users.

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How to sentinel Amazon Prime number Video on your TV

Amazon Video apps are available for many Smart TVs from multiple manufacturers. These include, but are not sectional to, TVs from LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony. Yous simply need to download the app onto your set, open it, enter your Amazon account details and away you lot get.

Many TVs are likewise able to playback 4K HDR content also, with some supporting Dolby Atmos. You lot tin find compatible models here.

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How to lookout Amazon Prime number Video on a fix-top box or streaming stick

Amazon Video apps are also available for a option of set-acme boxes and this is mostly the cheapest an easiest manner to sentinel Amazon Video on your TV.

Amazon's own streaming devices - the Amazon Fire Idiot box Stick - take access hardbaked into their operating systems, and so y'all see the content every bit part of the habitation screen menus and search results. They are compatible with Alexa and offer a direct route to Amazon content.

Amazon Prime Video is likewise bachelor on common streaming sticks and boxes:

Apple tree Goggle box
Roku devices
Chromecast with Google Television set
Nvidia Shield
BT Television set-summit box
Virgin Media TiVO
Many Blu-ray players

4K Ultra Hard disk drive and HDR support is available through the latest Amazon Fire Television receiver-superlative-box, along with Dolby Atmos sound. Some other devices only support sound upward to 5.1 surround sound. It requires a HDMI 2.0 port with HDCP 2.2 copy protection enabled on your TV to work.

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How to watch Amazon Prime number Video on a games console

At that place are Amazon Prime Video apps for all the major consoles: PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/South.

On the Xbox One Southward, One X, Series X/S are capable of streaming Prime Video in 4K HDR.

On all devices, you just need to navigate using a gamepad or optional dedicated remote control. In that location is no support on Nintendo Switch.

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How to sentinel Amazon Prime number Video on a smartphone or tablet

Android and iOS devices, such as iPhone and iPad, have their own Amazon Video apps, available from the respective app stores.

Naturally, Amazon also fully supports all of its own Fire tablets. They all have the content accessible from a defended section of Burn down Os.

How to sentinel Amazon Prime Video on a PC or Mac

Amazon Video content, Prime or otherwise, can be viewed on a PC or Mac through an internet browser. Only head to the Amazon Video department of its website and yous can cull betwixt Prime shows and movies or the retailer'south digital video shop.

Video played on a reckoner tin be viewed in either SD or HD, but will only have stereo sound.

Does Amazon Video offer downloads?

Rentals and purchases through Amazon Video tin can be downloaded, also equally a lot of the subscription covered content on Amazon Prime Video.

Just head to the content yous want to download on a mobile device and hit the download push button.

What broadband speed practice I need for Amazon Video?

Amazon streams video using adaptive bitrate technology, which adapts the image quality depending on your device and internet connection. Its subscription includes 4K Ultra Hard disk drive streaming. You likewise demand to be able to reach decent broadband speeds.

These are the minimum broadband speeds that are recommended for different resolutions:

900Kbps - recommended for SD quality.
3.5Mbps - recommended for Hard disk drive quality.
15Mbps - recommended for 4K Ultra Hard disk quality.

In most cases, bar mobile platforms, audio is offered in 5.one environs sound and in some cases with Dolby Atmos.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Editing past Chris Hall.