Amazon Prime Video won’t offer Dolby Vision and Atmos on its ad-supported plan | The company is now facing a lawsuit over its decision to charge $3 more for ad-free viewing.::Amazon isn’t only interrupting its Prime Video subscribers’ viewing experience with ads – it’s also removing their access to Dolby Vision and Atmos unless they pay $3 a month on top of their subscription fees.
I don’t regularly watch anything on APV so this specific action doesn’t really effect me -but- the uninhibited profit seeking by the Entertainment Industry is out of control. As a high income household we’ve silently absorbed the rate hikes and content splitting in order to keep enjoying content but the latest industry moves around account sharing and charging extra for basic stuff is getting to be too much. The former because I’ve got kids in College and I shouldn’t have to pay for extra"accounts, even with Student Discounts, so they can watch things and I definitely shouldn’t have to pay for simple add-ons like HD, Vision, and Atmos!
I’m lucky enough to be able to stand up a Media Server (Plex in my case) and am currently integrating that with “Arrr” services so I can hop off this carousel of rent-seeking insanity.