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Amazon Prime Video’s ad-supported subscription doesn’t help Dolby Imaginative and prescient and Atmos


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TL;DR

  • Amazon has silently eliminated help for Dolby Imaginative and prescient and Dolby Atmos on the ad-supported subscription tier of Prime Video.
  • Customers should improve to the ad-free subscription tier to take pleasure in Dolby Imaginative and prescient and Dolby Atmos.
  • Amazon has just lately hiked its costs for the ad-free tier and launched a decrease ad-supported subscription tier however had not disclosed these downgrades.

Amazon Prime Video is the one place you possibly can catch some superb Prime Video authentic exhibits, however you want a subscription for that. Amazon just lately raised its subscription costs within the US, asking customers to pay an extra $2.99 per 30 days until they need to see advertisements of their subscription. In the event you caught round with the unique costs and made peace with the advertisements, Amazon has snuck in one other downgrade: You don’t get Dolby Imaginative and prescient and Dolby Atmos on the ad-supported subscription tier.

4KFilme discovered that Amazon Prime Video’s ad-supported subscription tier (which nonetheless prices no less than $8.99 month-to-month) doesn’t help Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR and Dolby Atmos 3D sound. The report mentions that the Dolby Imaginative and prescient and Dolby Atmos choices remained lacking from Sony, LG, and Samsung TVs that they examined it on. The ad-supported streaming tier helps a most of 4K decision, with HDR10 and Dolby Digital 5.1.

In a press release shared with The Verge, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed that this can be a deliberate transfer. The spokesperson says, “Dolby Imaginative and prescient and Dolby Atmos capabilities are solely out there on the ad-free choice, on related titles.”

Each Dolby Imaginative and prescient and Dolby Atmos had been beforehand provided on the bottom ad-free $8.99 month-to-month tier earlier than the value hike kicked in. Amazon didn’t point out these restrictions in its bulletins of the value hike and introduction of the ad-free tier. Basically, customers are caught watching poorer video and audio feeds, have to look at advertisements, and likewise pay Amazon for the subscription to the content material. It’s like cable TV yet again, and that’s not a praise.

Amazon has provided no motive for why the function was eliminated. However since Dolby costs licensing charges for Dolby Imaginative and prescient and Dolby Atmos, we presume Amazon could need to keep away from paying that on the decrease subscription tier, as that’s the most believable clarification. As an alternative, the corporate might push HDR10+ ahead because the open and royalty-free commonplace.

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