Amazon Prime Video to launch worldwide Amazon.com is preparing to take its video streaming service worldwide in a challenge to Netflix, the world’s largest paid online TV network. Amazon, which currently offers the service in only a handful of countries, announced the plans Thursday in a blog post about The Grand Tour, a lavish new reality show featuring the former stars of BBC’s popular Top Gear. “In December, the show will premiere in 200 countries and territories around the world, exclusively on Amazon,” the company wrote on its website. CEO Jeff Bezos also mentioned the plans on Twitter. Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer, has spent billions of dollars licensing programming and producing original shows and movies as part of its Prime service. Customers who pay US$99/year for free shipping and other benefits get access to a library of new and older content at no added cost. The expansion of the Seattle-based company’s video service is one of the biggest challenges yet to Netflix, which operates in more than 190 countries after completing its international roll-out in January. It is available everywhere except Syria, North Korea, China and Crimea, the company said at the time. It is well worth considering the Amazon Prime deal over the monthly stand alone subscription. Although you pay up front, it work out cheaper per annum and has other added pluses like free reading, etc. See http://ift.tt/2fBQr9O
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