Hardly. Amazon Prime is worth it for the shipping, Prime Video is essentially a freebie that they throw in. And it's still got a lot more content than Apple, and it's generally better content.
I'm gonna bet there are a LOT more people with Amazon Prime than with Apple TV+, and it's probably going to stay that way.
Apple's big thing is apparently some show about a sportsball coach. Yawn.
Better content than Apple TV+? Hardly. The Lord of the Rings show was pretty even though the writing was pretty middling. Upload was genuinely good. Jack Ryan is good. Marvellous Ms Maisel was good for the episodes I watched. And they’ve had a few others that I enjoyed. But they have NOTHING as good as Ted Lasso, Shrinking or Severance. Foundation is certainly better than the seasons of the Expanse that Amazon funded.
Don’t get me wrong, Prime Video has some good shows but they’re no where near Apple’s level.
Not surprised given Amazon's broader push into movies: buying MGM, bigger spend on cinema the last few years, and now reports of them moving into actual theatre ownership. They already highlighted plans to release 12-15 movies in theatres annually. Directors & Producers love that kind of thinking.
I attended a SMPTE screening of HDR content in that theater on the 40' wide 4K LED screen a few weeks ago. That was super impressive.
(Side note of interest: since the LED screen is solid, they can't put screen channel (L-C-R) speakers behind the screen. This was solved by placing smallish speaker arrays above the screen, a few meters away, then pointing them "backwards" onto the screen so the sound could bounce off the screen surface.)
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I attended a SMPTE screening of HDR content in that theater on the 40' wide 4K LED screen a few weeks ago. That was super impressive.
(Side note of interest: since the LED screen is solid, they can't put screen channel (L-C-R) speakers behind the screen. This was solved by placing smallish speaker arrays above the screen, a few meters away, then pointing them "backwards" onto the screen so the sound could bounce off the screen surface.)