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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. (www.engadget.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

Prime was a reasonable value for me a decade ago. The streaming side was never the main draw but it was a nice added bonus, especially when Netflix started to lose a lot of the content I actually wanted to watch.

Unfortunately, Amazon's been flooded with worthless trash, and they made the conscious decision to make searching and filtering as useless as possible. It's actually impressive that they've so degraded their service that it's usually more convenient for me to go shopping locally than to try to navigate the unending mine field on Amazon.

So of course they try to ruin the last thing keeping me subscribed. I'm done, they can fuck off. I've got a jellyfin server, I don't need these assholes.

Unfortunately, I'm sure they'll make an obscene amount of money with this move, because apparently the world is full of people who will pay good money to bend over and take it.