I have been using Prime Video for years: its 5 pros and 4 cons
Choosing a streaming platform today is not easy.
The content offer is enormous and the number of platforms is almost overwhelming. In the end, if you have all of them hired, It can mean a monthly expense of about 70 euros.
What to do in this case? Simple: try to find your favorite streaming platform so you can only choose one that really meets everything you need.
In my personal case, I have Prime Video for many years now and I am very clear What are the 5 advantages and 4 disadvantages of the platform against the competition.
Before you continue, I also leave you here the ones from Netflix, HBO Max and Disney Plus, so you can get an overall idea.
With all this clear, let’s go there.
The 5 advantages of Prime Video
Between the Advantages of Prime Video are found:
It is really the cheapest platform, since it comes included with your Amazon Prime subscription.
You may not even know it, but Prime Video is included in your Amazon Prime subscription.
This means that it is the cheapest platform of all by far, since for 49.90 euros per year, about 4 euros a month not only do you have a ton of series, movies and documentaries at your fingertips, but you can also benefit from all the advantages of being Prime.
If you like Telecinco’s content, you can watch it on Prime sooner than on the network itself.
Although it is true that it does not always happen, the last season of The one that is coming will arrive sooner to Telecinco, Generally, the content of the Spanish channel lands first on Prime Video.
And it happens with practically all of its fictional content. This means that you can watch your favorite series without having to watch ads that cut off the episode and even binge watch a few episodes.
It is the place where it is The Boys.
This is, without a doubt, one of the best series in recent years and you can only watch it on Prime Video.
An irreverent series, which does not hesitate to show explicit content of all kinds, with a superb script and simply masterful performances. For this reason alone it deserves to enter the catalog to enjoy the 3 seasons available, the fourth is supposed to land this year just like him spin off Gene V.
It is the perfect place for lovers of sports intra stories: countless documentaries with very interesting characters.
If you are passionate about the stories that are generated in the sports environment, Prime Video is your place.
The platform has a lot of documentaries focused on relevant sports figures such as Joaquín, Sergio Ramos, Iker Casillas, the Spanish team —10 years after our star It is a must see, for example— Simeone, live game by game either Rafa Nadal Academy These are just some examples.
It’s the place for big-budget series…
Along with Apple, Prime Video also spends a good amount of money on its own series. It is something that can be clearly seen in The Rings of Power that cost more than 700 million euros or in The Wheel of Time, which although it does not reach those numbers, also had a high production budget.
What does this mean? Simple: amazing settings, unique, carefully crafted digital effects and an absolute spectacle to behold in every frame.
The 4 disadvantages of Prime Video
Between the Disadvantages of Prime Video are found:
… although the budget is not everything and the series have not finished succeeding.
Now, despite this enormous budget, Amazon’s latest major productions have not met expectations. The Rings of Power For example, has not been very well received neither by critics nor by the public and Something similar It has also happened to The wheel of time.
In the end, Amazon’s big bets on original content aren’t working as well as they should, and this is really what makes you decide on one platform over another.
A terrible search engine: frustrations, here we come!
This, without a doubt, is one of the worst things about Prime Video: a search engine that is downright bad.
Not only because of how poorly refined it is, since it is practically necessary to search for content with all the words, but rather because of the frustration it generates.
Surely it has happened to you more than once: you look for something, you find it, you are filled with excitement… but it turns out that when you enter that content, It is for rent or purchase or belongs to an extra payment package that you do not have available.
I think it would be very positive if all the content you do not have does not appear in the search engine since this generates extreme frustration in the user and makes them go to another site angry.
There are many movies and series that are missing subtitles or key languages.
Living in Spain, what I hope is that the contents are in Spanish or at least they give me the option of having subtitles in Spanish.
This is something that is perfectly understood on other platforms, but on Prime Video this is not the case. I’m not going to say that it happens with everything, obviously.
There is a lot of content that has options for all tastes, but it is also true that there is another large part of content that either does not have the Spanish language or, Even more serious, they do not have subtitles in Spanish, if you do not have the movie in Spanish.
A quick example: in Call me By Your Name the film was only in Italian and with subtitles in Italian, German, English and French. No trace of Spanish. In the end I had to go to Apple TV, where at least the subtitles were available so I could follow the plot. And this, sadly, It happens in many more independent films.
If it weren’t for the fact that it is included in Amazon Prime, I would surely go to other options
Although it has many good things, to me, taking away The Boys and the occasional documentary, it is a platform that I enter from time to time.
In the end, its big plus point is that it is included as an Amazon Prime membership, which I use a lot throughout the year, so that alone makes up for it.
Now, if it were offered as an independent platform, even for this price, I would still go to other services.
Many of its contents, apart from the originals, are obviously already available on other platforms that have a better catalog and a more refined service.