Amazon Live Tv Streaming Service
One of my theories about the rise of streaming video has been that live, linear TV schedules would in most cases go away. Of course there’d be exceptions for live events, such as news and sports, but for movies and TV shows, a Netflix-style menu of on-demand video would suffice. A couple of recent events have made me question that assumption. First came the news that Hulu would be to its $40-per-month channel bundle. It’s already in public beta on the web, and it’s headed to TV devices in the spring. Shortly after that, Amazon to Fire TV devices.
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Does Amazon Prime Have Live Tv
Amazon doesn’t offer a bundle of cable channels, but it sells premium ones, such as HBO and Showtime, as standalone add-ons for Amazon Prime subscribers. The guide will let users tune into live feeds from those channels and offshoots such as HBO Family and Showtime Beyond. It turns out that even in the age of streaming video—when algorithms can learn from your viewing habits and predict what you’ll want to watch—the live, curated TV schedule still has staying power. Just give me something to watch Even with the current version of Hulu, which emphasizes on-demand video over live channels, scheduled programming remains popular. Hulu’s senior vice president of experience, Ben Smith told me that Hulu TV bundle subscribers spend 54 percent of their time watching on-demand video, which means almost half of users’ time is still spent on live TV. While news and sports make up the bulk of that viewing time, Hulu has also seen other uses flourish as it tests the new live TV guide.