Amazon prime streaming

[pcslookout]

Why are amazon prime streaming videos of hbo shows, etc all in 480p ? I have enough bandwidth for HD 720 or 1080p.

Netflix streams fine in HD.


Edit: Looks like I am not the only one.

http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon ...orum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdThread=Tx32ANLTVTAIS4I

 

[Jeff7]

My Amazon streaming experience:
- The quality usually sets itself to the lowest speed automatically, and won't change. (>20Mbps TimeWarner service.) So I have yet to see anything in HD at Amazon.
- About 20-25 minutes into a show or movie, on roughly 40% of anything I've watched, the streaming will stop and switch to buffering, then be unable to find Amazon's servers again. I need to force-reload the page to get it to move on.
- Some of their shows were not deinterlaced before transfer to streaming format, so they look terrible.

 

[Thump553]

I use Amazon Prime streaming a lot and have only noticed any problems in maybe 1% of the time, which is less problems than I see with our normal Comcast cable TV.

But then again I'm a dinosaur that still uses CRT TV (I refuse to throw out a perfectly good appliance) so HD is meaningless to me.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I'm getting pretty good results with Prime streaming. I use an Xbox 360 and a Roku 3, both wired (both devices are 100mbit). Comcast ISP, 100mbit down /10mbit up. Picture quality is good, and reports HD.

 

[slugg]

My biggest complaint is the poor audio quality.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Why are amazon prime streaming videos of hbo shows, etc all in 480p ?

Some of the stuff is only licenced to be streamed in SD, even on Netflix.

For example, you try to stream TNG on Netflix and it will be 480p despite 1080p sources existing thanks to the Blu Rays. Because if not, why buy the Blu Ray?

 

[twinrider1]

Netflix streams through my PS3 just fine. Good quality and buffering is very rare.
Amazon Prime is slow and buffers much more often.

Is buffer still the word? It's not like I can pause and wait for the whole movie to load.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Amazon streams just fine through my xbox one. Looks fine, sounds fine. Comparable to Netflix, not as good as Vudu HDX.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I use prime streaming... but only because I have amazon prime anyway and I don't watch enough TV to make netflix worth it.

I haven't had a problem getting hd when it's available, but I don't really pay attention to it too much so maybe I'm just not noticing it.

 

[cronos]

My only complaint with Amazon Prime Video is the terrible web UI. Only from the web though, as from iOS, Kindle Fire, FireTV, or even Roku it's completely fine. The web has gotten better lately, but still terrible.