Amazon Prime Lite is anticipated to launch quickly in India, with testing already commenced for restricted customers who’ve acquired entry to the plan. Amazon has additionally detailed the particular advantages of the Prime Lite subscription, which highlights the variations between the extra reasonably priced Rs. 999 ‘Lite’ subscription and the common Rs. 1,499 Prime subscription plans. Notably, Amazon Prime Video is accessible as a part of the brand new Prime Lite subscription, however with sure limitations and controls which are not current on the dearer plan.
Amazon Prime Video on Prime Lite: options, advantages, and limitations
As talked about, Amazon Prime Video is accessible as a part of the Prime Lite subscription plan. Customers will have the ability to entry the whole catalogue of streaming content material on Amazon Prime Video, together with films, stay sports activities, and reveals marked with the ‘Prime’ emblem which can be found to stream without cost. This consists of content material from India and globally, as per licensing agreements.
Nonetheless, this content material can be obtainable to stream on solely two units concurrently, and in commonplace definition decision. Streaming may even be restricted to the Prime Video Android and iOS apps, though it will probably embody apps for good TV and streaming units as properly, along with Amazon’s personal Hearth TV streaming gadget and supported televisions. Customers on the Prime Lite plan will not have the ability to entry the Prime Video web site on browsers.
Amazon additionally states that content material can be ad-supported on the Prime Lite plan, though particulars of the sort of adverts, the frequency of those adverts, and the way in which they are going to be applied will not be often known as of now. As compared, the complete Prime subscription provides ad-free entry to the complete catalogue of content material at as much as Extremely-HD HDR decision on limitless units, and will be accessed on all appropriate units by both the Prime Video app or at Primevideo.com on a Internet browser.
Amazon Music, the corporate’s music streaming service, won’t be accessible on the Prime Lite subscription plan. Amazon Prime Lite can be priced at Rs. 999 per 12 months, whereas the complete Prime Video subscription is priced at Rs. 1,499 per 12 months or Rs. 179 per thirty days.