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Old 09-07-2015, 16:40
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The site says:
June: 719 additions, 86 removals

but how is that right when I counted 594 removals in that one week???
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Old 10-07-2015, 13:52
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The site says:
June: 719 additions, 86 removals

but how is that right when I counted 594 removals in that one week???
The site is counting most of them as July - 52 additions, 578 removals.
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Old 23-07-2015, 22:29
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Paddington now added in time for the school holidays.
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Old 24-07-2015, 17:12
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I thought maybe the OP had made a mistake,

but do Amazon Prime suddenly start charging for content that was previously included in the Amazon Prime price while a person is within their membership period?
They do because copyright holders hand the purchase/rental licences out like they candy because to maximise the income from these it needs to be available in as many stores as possible where as the subscription streaming rights have their value in them by controlling who can have the licence
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Old 24-07-2015, 17:36
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However over 700 new titles were added in June.

Shows and films do seem to come and go a lot.
It would be nice for us to be given end dates. Sky on demand shows how long titles are available till.
The content owners don't like the expiry dates, even Netflix have had to scale it back. It negatively impacts the viewing numbers especially on TV shows when the warning went up. This lowers what they can ask in renegotiations and also there are at times a per play fee to be paid. Also if the title is removed they want people to either jump to the new service thus proving the worth OR even better want you to have to buy it where the content owners actually make much more on them.

Amazon are generally able to list the expiry on the watchlist
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Old 24-07-2015, 17:51
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I don't know how old you are - the "since 1982-83" bit does suggest you're not a teenager. The younger generation arer heavily into streaming and the attitude there is different. But my peers are not (most of them are over 60) except for the odd You Tube music video.

And yes, sales of VHS recorders soared in the 80s. A survey of buyers when asked at time of purchase, more than 80% stated they would use it to record programmes for future viewing. When asked again 6 months later only 6% had done so. The rest had either recorded the progamme they were currently watching (why?) or used it to watch commercial videos. (The numbers are from memory so may not be totally correct - but the order of magnitiude is correct.)

The users of these fora tend to be technophiles and, as such are a poor representative cross section of the populace. Try asking around, you may be surprised.
Actually the younger generation aren't really using streaming for long form content in any great numbers. Their higher consumption of online content is largely of short form content on YouTube. And content consumption of Twitch is growing faster in that demo than long form content consumption online.

And in general while all demos have seen a reduction in live linear viewing the drops been more due to near live timeshifting.
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Old 25-07-2015, 11:23
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I thought maybe the OP had made a mistake,

but do Amazon Prime suddenly start charging for content that was previously included in the Amazon Prime price while a person is within their membership period?
No. What Amazon Prime are doing is no different to Netflix. Both have a large selection of films and series available to watch for the single monthly fee.

Both restrict the number to what is financially viable within the subscription costs. Licensing movies and series costs money, so they can't have everything, and unless they drastically increase costs, they can't always put the latest shows in.

They also can't license them forever, so after a period of time, some shows drop off, some new ones come in.

In this case Netflix and Prime are no different.

The only difference is, is that Prime also offers everything for sale and rent much like iTunes. So, once something does drop out of their subscription library, it is still available to rent or buy. It isn't as you ask that they suddenly start charging for something that was in their subscription - these shows were also available for rent and buying from Amazon, iTunes, Google, Vudu, MGo and all the rest even when it was up on Prime.
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