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Available 18th November on Amazon Prime (September 2016)

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DO
dosxuk
Overnight? I give it an hour.
RD
rdd Founding member
I'm surprised Amazon would let that happen, unless it's not for quite a while after they're initially made available. Surely one of their main motives of picking the show up was to get people to subscribe to Prime.

Yes I would have thought they'd wring as much as they can out of it first. And I can't imagine Clarkson would be keen on going from 100's of millions of viewers to a fraction of that


They won't be getting 100s of millions of viewers if they limit themselves to a Prime service that's limited to a grand total of five countries, just two of which are English speaking.
NG
noggin Founding member
I always assumed it would, the ratings on linear TV will far outweigh those who watch non-linearly


Quite. Particularly as Amazon and Netflix don't really publish ratings...

As for piracy. If you can play it over HDMI, it will be pirated. HDCP or no HDCP.
KN
knack
I think it's inevitable that they will have distribution agreements for countries without Amazon Video, indeed here is a tweet and reply about such situation.





I've seen similar for Canada and Australia. I wonder how much patience they want people to have. Presumably not much as they'll know people will turn to alternative sources.

I do think it's less likely we'll see a UK TV deal in the short term.
Last edited by knack on 1 October 2016 3:14am - 2 times in total

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