Hacker News Reader

Any idea on details around this:

Over 100,000 movies and TV shows, including thousands of new releases and your favorite TV shows, are available to stream or download, purchase or rent - all just one tap away. Amazon Prime members enjoy unlimited, commercial-free streaming of over 10,000 popular movies and TV shows.

As a Netflix user, I know first-hand that quantity doesn't necessarily mean quality. Any idea on what this list actually contains?

View on HN

For the free options, the movie selection is decent, and the TV selection is pretty awful. Lots of back catalog stuff, like 270 episodes of Cheers, but only a few series from recent years.

But OTOH, I paid for Prime when it didn't have any streaming, and thought it was worth it, so I don't have high expectations.

It's probably all the same movies/tv shows available on Amazon. Note that the 100,000 includes all the ones you can purchase and rent. If you have amazon prime, the 10,000 subset is what you can stream for free to this device.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com