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Re:Amazon Snags Older HBO Shows For Web Streaming by brianstorms on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:17AM (#7634461)
In my experience, Amazon does not care for high quality streaming. As a Prime member for a while, I gave their streaming a shot. Laughable. Might as well have been watching the video on a 56k USRobotics modem with a very high latency connection. Low resolution, fuzzy picture, stops and starts. I simply do not trust Amazon to do it right.
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Re:Amazon Snags Older HBO Shows For Web Streaming by eogas on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:21AM (#7634508)
Not to mention HDCP. The first time I tried out Prime streaming, I turned off my second monitor after starting up the video, and Amazon took that to mean that I was a criminal, and that my video should be stopped.

I groaned and fired up Netflix.

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Re:Amazon Snags Older HBO Shows For Web Streaming by hatred on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:22AM (#7634520)
May be we both live in a different world of sorts. Are there others like you who seem to be facing issues with instant video recently because for me it works quite well. Also , how long back did you try it ?
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Re:Amazon Snags Older HBO Shows For Web Streaming by dublinben on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:30AM (#7634586)
No matter where you are, Amazon won't stream high quality (or even HD) streams to a PC. Their streaming quality is quite poor compared to their competitors.
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Re:Amazon Snags Older HBO Shows For Web Streaming by gamblor956 on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:46AM (#7634716)
Don't spread FUD. I get 1080p streams on my PC when I rent or purchase videos through Amazon VOD or watch the free ones through Prime. If your PC isn't getting HD (but for some reason your other devices are), the problem is probably your computer or its network connection.
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Re:Amazon Snags Older HBO Shows For Web Streaming by dublinben on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @12:00PM (#7634818)
"HD playback is not available on all devices. For example, some Roku and TiVo devices don't support HD content. The Kindle Fire HD is HD compatible, along with Windows computers that meet the content protection (HDCP) requirements."

My computer is perfectly capable of playing 1080p content (I do it all the time) they just choose not to provide it to me on my non-HDCP monitor. That's clearly their problem, not mine.

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Re:Amazon Snags Older HBO Shows For Web Streaming by DonGateley on Thursday April 24, 2014 @02:13AM (#7638733)
I have never been able to get HD in a browser on my PC with "free" Instant Prime. I cancelled Prime because of all the obscure restrictions on streaming Instant Prime. What are you doing to get HD from Instant Prime?
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Re:Amazon Snags Older HBO Shows For Web Streaming by Reedx on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:46AM (#7634715)
Weird, I use it a lot (almost as much as Netflix) and haven't had those problems. Always get HD and an uninterrupted stream.
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