Amazon has announced today that their streaming service Amazon Prime Video is now available to customers in over 200 countries around the globe, including the Republic of Ireland. Before today it was only available in the US, UK, Germany, Austria and Japan.
Like Netflix, the streaming gives its customers a monthly membership that allows the access to movies and popular TV shows.
The service offers access to hundreds of popular Hollywood movies and TV shows, as well as other Amazon Original Series like The Grand Tour from Clarkson, Hammond and May (currently the top-rated TV show on IMDb), The Man in the High Castle, Transparent, Mozart in the Jungle, Tumble Leaf and more.
Woody Allen’s first TV series Crisis in Six Scenes will be exclusively available on Amazon Prime next year.
Amazon says this is just the beginning and it will continue to add a fresh new original programming from some of the world’s greatest storytellers and entertainers to Prime Video in early 2017.
The introductory membership fee is €2.99 per month for the first six months and you can get a 7 day free trial of the service. After the first six months, it goes up to €5.99 (making it comfortably cheaper than the €9.99 a month currently charged by Netflix for its standard package). The streaming service also gives the possibility to download and stream the content available in offline viewing - a service that Netflix has just introduced.
Members can watch Amazon Prime Video trough its app on Android and iOS phones and tablets, Fire Tablets, LG and Samsung Smart TVs or online at PrimeVideo.com.