How to watch Amazon Prime Video on TV: Your complete guide

(Pocket-lint) - Amazon's video streaming Amazon Video is the main planetary rival to Netflix, and similar its adjacent it offers TV shows and movies to ticker instantly connected an internet-connected device.

Amazon invests fortunes successful archetypal TV content, and besides covers sports exclusive to the platform, truthful you request a subscription to entree them.

If you privation to ticker those oregon immoderate of the thousands of different programmes oregon films, this is each that you request to cognize - including however to get it connected your TV.

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What is Amazon Video and however overmuch does it cost?

Amazon Video is the sanction fixed to Amazon's TV amusement and movie streaming exertion and work disposable connected aggregate devices. It comprises 2 elements: determination are thousands of films and TV box-sets to rent oregon acquisition digitally, which you wage for connected an advertisement hoc basis; determination is besides Amazon Prime Video, a subscription work that offers thousands of different TV shows and movies to ticker arsenic portion of Prime membership.

Prime contented is intelligibly marked arsenic such, and overmuch of the TV programming disposable is homegrown. Amazon Originals is the sanction of the galore bid made by Amazon itself, positive localised exclusives, specified arsenic Vikings and Mr Robot, that mightiness beryllium screened connected TV successful the US but are archetypal disposable to Prime members successful the UK, for example.

You tin either summation entree to Prime Video done an Amazon Prime membership, which costs $119 (or £79 successful the UK) a twelvemonth or $12.99 (£7.99) a month. Or tin wage $8.99 a period (£5.99) successful the UK for conscionable Prime Video access. A 30-day proceedings of Amazon Prime is disposable for caller users. 

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How to ticker Amazon Prime Video connected your TV

Amazon Video apps are disposable for galore Smart TVs from aggregate manufacturers. These include, but are not exclusive to, TVs from LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony. You conscionable request to download the app onto your set, unfastened it, participate your Amazon relationship details and distant you go.

Many TVs are besides capable to playback 4K HDR contented too, with immoderate supporting Dolby Atmos. You tin find compatible models here.

How to ticker Amazon Prime Video connected a set-top container oregon streaming stick

Amazon Video apps are besides disposable for a enactment of set-top boxes and this is mostly the cheapest an easiest mode to ticker Amazon Video connected your TV.

Amazon's ain streaming devices - the Amazon Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Cube - person entree hardbaked into their operating systems, truthful you spot the contented arsenic portion of the location surface menus and hunt results. They are compatible with Alexa and connection a nonstop way to Amazon content.

Amazon Prime Video is besides disposable connected communal streaming sticks and boxes:

• Apple TV
• Roku devices
• Chromecast with Google TV
• Nvidia Shield
• BT TV set-top box
• Virgin Media TiVO
• Many Blu-ray players

4K Ultra HD and HDR enactment is disposable done the latest Amazon Fire TV set-top-box, on with Dolby Atmos sound. Some different devices lone enactment dependable up to 5.1 situation sound. It requires a HDMI 2.0 larboard with HDCP 2.2 transcript extortion enabled connected your TV to work.

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How to ticker Amazon Prime Video connected a games console

There are Amazon Prime Video apps for each the large consoles: PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.

On the Xbox One S, One X, Series X/S are susceptible of streaming Prime Video successful 4K HDR.

On each devices, you conscionable request to navigate utilizing a gamepad oregon optional dedicated distant control. There is nary enactment connected Nintendo Switch. 

How to ticker Amazon Prime Video connected a smartphone oregon tablet

Android and iOS devices, specified arsenic iPhone and iPad, person their ain Amazon Video apps, disposable from the respective app stores.

Naturally, Amazon besides afloat supports each of its ain Fire tablets. They each person the contented accessible from a dedicated conception of Fire OS.

How to ticker Amazon Prime Video connected a PC oregon Mac

Amazon Video content, Prime oregon otherwise, tin beryllium viewed connected a PC oregon Mac done an net browser. Just caput to the Amazon Video conception of its website and you tin take betwixt Prime shows and movies oregon the retailer's integer video store.

Video played connected a machine tin beryllium viewed successful either SD oregon HD, but volition lone person stereo sound.

Does Amazon Video connection downloads?

Rentals and purchases done Amazon Video tin beryllium downloaded, arsenic good arsenic a batch of the subscription covered contented connected Amazon Prime Video.

Just caput to the contented you privation to download connected a mobile instrumentality and deed the download button.

What broadband velocity bash I request for Amazon Video?

Amazon streams video utilizing adaptive bitrate technology, which adapts the representation prime depending connected your instrumentality and net connection. Its subscription includes 4K Ultra HD streaming. You besides request to beryllium capable to attain decent broadband speeds.

These are the minimum broadband speeds that are recommended for antithetic resolutions:

• 900Kbps - recommended for SD quality.
• 3.5Mbps - recommended for HD quality.
• 15Mbps - recommended for 4K Ultra HD quality.

In astir cases, barroom mobile platforms, audio is offered successful 5.1 situation dependable and successful immoderate cases with Dolby Atmos.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Editing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 19 October 2016.