Amazon
will continue its commitment to providing customers with a premium
entertainment experience with access to HDR titles including Amazon
Originals this year
SEATTLE - Friday, April 10th 2015 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS
WIRE)-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that Prime members and
customers in the US, UK and Germany will be able to watch titles in High
Dynamic Range (HDR) this year. Amazon Originals will be the first to
arrive in HDR video quality later this year. Amazon is working with
Hollywood studios, leading technology innovators and global consumer
electronics companies to bring Prime members and customers an unmatched
HDR experience in 2015.
“4K Ultra HD picture resolution
was just the beginning—we’re excited that Prime members will soon be
able to view movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals in HDR
quality,” said Michael Paull, Vice President of Digital Video at Amazon.
“HDR is the natural next step in our commitment to premium
entertainment, and we can’t wait for customers to have even more choice
in how they watch their favorite titles on Amazon Prime Instant Video.”
Amazon
continues to raise the bar in premium entertainment. Less than six
months ago, Amazon brought movies and TV shows to Prime members and
customers in Ultra HD, and continues to grow the catalog of titles
available in the high quality 4K picture resolution. The next step is
HDR—the technology that brings greater contrast to the screen, with
detailed shadows and distinct highlights to make colors appear richer,
brighter and more lifelike, unlike ever before.
About Amazon
Amazon.com
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995. The company is guided by
four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus,
passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and
long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized
recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct
Publishing, Kindle, Fire phone, Fire tablets, and Fire TV are some of
the products and services pioneered by Amazon.
About Prime Instant Video
Amazon
Prime members have instant access to stream tens of thousands of movies
and TV episodes, including award-winning Amazon Original Series,
available on Prime Instant Video at no additional cost to their
membership. In addition, new release movies like Gone Girl, Boyhood and
Birdman as well as classics like the Star Wars saga along with in-season
shows like The Walking Dead, Scandal and Better Call Saul are also
available for rent or purchase on Amazon Instant Video for all customers
to stream and enjoy.
Customers can watch shows and
movies with the Amazon Instant Video app. The Amazon Instant Video app
is available on hundreds of devices including connected TVs, Amazon Fire
TV, Roku, Xbox and PlayStation, as well as on mobile devices like Fire
phone, Fire tablets, iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets. Customers
can also watch online at Amazon.com/PIV. Prime Instant Video is also
the only U.S. online-only subscription streaming service that enables
offline viewing—on a plane, on vacation, and anywhere else where you may
not have Wi-Fi.
Amazon Prime members have exclusive
access to popular TV series at no additional cost to their membership.
Prime members can enjoy binge-worthy TV shows including Amazon Original
Series airing now such as multi-Golden Globe-winning series Transparent,
the hour-long drama Bosch, based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling
books, the Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman comedy Mozart in the
Jungle and the political comedy starring John Goodman Alpha House, in
addition to HBO favorites like The Sopranos, True Blood and Six Feet
Under, and popular primetime series including 24, Covert Affairs,
Downton Abbey, Extant, Falling Skies, Grimm, Hannibal, Justified, Orphan
Black, Teen Wolf, The Americans, Under the Dome and Veronica Mars.
Prime members also have access to an exclusive collection of kids shows
now airing including Amazon Original Series’ Annedroids, Gortimer
Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street and the Annecy International Animated
Film Festival Award-winning and Annie Award-winning Tumble Leaf, as well
as popular shows from Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. including SpongeBob
SquarePants, Dora the Explorer, Team Umizoomi, Blue’s Clues and The
Bubble Guppies.
In addition to tens of thousands of
titles to instantly stream, the Amazon Prime membership
(www.amazon.com/prime) includes one million songs and hundreds of
playlists with Prime Music, unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on millions
of items, early access to select Lightning Deals, unlimited photo
storage, and access to more than 800,000 books all for $99 a year.
Comprehensive
cast and crew information, including bios and filmographies, is
available on Amazon’s IMDb (www.imdb.com), the world’s most popular and
authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.
Contacts
Amazon.com, Inc.
Media Hotline, 206-266-7180
Amazon-pr@amazon.com
www.amazon.com/pr
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