Amazon Prime, like many services, is a DRM hell. It won't go to over 480p on Firefox on Linux at my end. However, instead of a rant, I am interested in why this is happening. Say, I rented the same film from YouTube Movies(Yes, such a service exists) and the quality can toggle all the upto 1080p but the same title on Prime Video is stuck at 480p. Is it because both services use two DIFFERENT kinds of DRM?
That's just one of the reasons why I completely killed my Amazon subscription, same with Disney and Netflix. Fuck that DRM BS.
Just get your stuff on the high seas and enjoy. I do subscribe to Max, and can play it all at 4K HDR in all my devices. I'll pay for services as long as they're worth it.
Companies put weird restrictions on quality to encourage pirating... company logic in nutshell....
Me complaining about how Amazon Prime Video is complete trash.
Out of all the streaming services, Amazon is the fucking worst.
I have Prime but mainly for delivery stuff rather than streaming. I did finally download their Prime Video on phone. I still pirate their original content and stuff that's available on the high seas because honestly I would rather see it on my laptop than the smaller screen of my phone(and Amazon won't let me see even in 720p on Linux legally).
DRM is one potential reason, but not the only one.
Content is licensed under specific conditions, resolution, audio tracks, closed captions, etc. Two organisations might have licensed the same title, but not the same conditions.
You can see this clearly during the Olympics where some channels only have secondary rights, or only certain events, but only free to air, not online, etc.
Added to that are marketing and exclusively deals and in the end it's anyone's guess what you actually end up with.
Out of curiosity, why did a mod delete my comment? I don't recall saying anything out of place, unless mentioning that I pay for a service that actually works is forbidden.
Your original comment made couple of days ago is visible. It was just duplicated couple of times more in the thread and the mods deleted the duplicates.
Oh, yeah, I did delete them (again, right after you) as soon as I saw that. Have been having this issue in voyager where it tells me it wasn't posted, so I try again and then it's duplicated. I did not check that one again, and I do apologize for being careless. I'll be more careful moving forward. Thank you.
That's just one of the reasons why I completely killed my Amazon subscription, same with Disney and Netflix. Fuck that DRM BS.
Just get your stuff on the high seas and enjoy. I do subscribe to Max, and can play it all at 4K HDR in all my devices. I'll pay for services as long as they're worth it.
That's just one of the reasons why I completely killed my Amazon subscription, same with Disney and Netflix. Fuck that DRM BS.
Just get your stuff on the high seas and enjoy. I do subscribe to Max, and can play it all at 4K HDR in all my devices. I'll pay for services as long as they're worth it.
