Amazon Prime Video, General Discussion [Ireland]

Ro-76 · 23-01-2020 11:13pm

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Your prime video has to be UK content. People who have Irish prime content shouldn't be able to rent movies no matter what card you use AFAIK.

You need to set your payment for digital services to the revolut card. When setting up the the card on amazon you will need to enter a UK billing address for the card. A parcel motel address in Antrim works for everyone. If it's still not working then settings are wrong somewhere.

I have finally figured this out. Firstly, I had done exactly as you said with my Revolut and the PM address. It did not work for me. I think it was because I had previously added the card and associated it with a billing address in ROI. Even after changing the billing address on Amazon and in the Revolut app to the PM address, it would not work.

Here's how I got it working:
Created a new virtual card in the Revolut app.
Added this 'new' card to amazon for digital payments associated with the PM address.
Now it works perfectly.

TheValeyard · 24-01-2020 12:30am

Picard is out now.

2smiggy · 24-01-2020 8:35am

TheValeyard wrote: »

Picard is out now.

Enjoyed the first episode!! Would have liked to watch a few together, getting to used to all episodes landing at once !!

peteeeed · 24-01-2020 4:55pm

Books smart added today

Muinteoir2018 · 25-01-2020 10:44pm

Vikings - anyone else here watching Vikings series 601 on prime and having trouble with the latest episode not being available to view???

Johnny Sausage · 25-01-2020 10:45pm

Saw that The OC and One Tree Hill have been added

That takes me back to my school days

EoinMcLovin · 25-01-2020 10:55pm

Johnny Sausage wrote: »

Saw that The OC and One Tree Hill have been added

That takes me back to my school days

Same here, man it's hard to believe that they first aired in 2003.

Klonker · 26-01-2020 2:28am

peteeeed wrote: »

Books smart added today

Very funny film, I'd highly recommend.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 27-01-2020 1:21am

I was browsing through a list of recent additions and I notice I Am Not A Serial Killer was added a few weeks back. I watched it a couple of years back and enjoyed it. RT description

"Sixteen-year-old John Wayne Cleaver (Max Records, Where the Wild Things Are) is not a serial killer-but he has all the makings of one. Keeping his homicidal tendencies and morbid obsessions with death and murder in check is a constant struggle that only gets harder when a real serial killer begins terrorizing his sleepy Midwestern town. Now, in order to track down a psychopath and protect those around him, John must unleash his darkest inner demons. Based on the cult novel by Dan Wells, this twisted, genre-bending thriller co-stars Christopher Lloyd and Breaking Bad's Laura Fraser."

I think the director Billy O'Brian is Irish and cinematography is by Robbie Ryan

PhiloCypher · 27-01-2020 1:26am

Just noticed Justified's on this. Don't know if it was recently added or I just somehow managed to miss it. Regardless, a rewatch is in order.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 27-01-2020 1:55am

PhiloCypher wrote: »

Just noticed Justified's on this. Don't know if it was recently added or I just somehow managed to miss it. Regardless, a rewatch is in order.

It's a fairly recent addition. There was a whole pile of TV shows added about a week ago, varying in quality.

NCIS
House
2 Broke Girls
Futurama
Smallville
Bob's Burgers
Elementary
Madam Secretary
Last Man Standing
The Middle
Psych
The Librarians
Downton Abbey
The Last Ship
Scream Queens
The Tudors
Roswell
Justified

killbillvol2 · 27-01-2020 9:42am

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

It's a fairly recent addition. There was a whole pile of TV shows added about a week ago, varying in quality.

NCIS
House
2 Broke Girls
Futurama
Smallville
Bob's Burgers
Elementary
Madam Secretary
Last Man Standing
The Middle
Psych
The Librarians
Downton Abbey
The Last Ship
Scream Queens
The Tudors
Roswell
Justified

The Tudors and Justified have been on it for ages. Trouble is you'd have to stumble across them. It's a really terrible interface hiding a lot of good material.

PsychoPete · 27-01-2020 8:04pm

The interface really is awful, struggle to find shows or movies

GreenandRed · 27-01-2020 8:12pm

Watching Hand of God. Ron Perlman and Dana Delaney, who looks mighty for a woman in her sixties. First season starts well. Strange storyline and some interesting characters. Getting bored with second season, very predictable, but might as well see how it ends.

naughto · 27-01-2020 8:39pm

PsychoPete wrote: »

The interface really is awful, struggle to find shows or movies

Have prime just before Christmas I like it but the interface and search are all over the place

dulpit · 28-01-2020 11:34am

naughto wrote: »

Have prime just before Christmas I like it but the interface and search are all over the place

The choice on Prime is good. XRay is fab, and I wish Netflix had it. But the UI and subtitle behaviour of Prime is a pain in the neck. I don't like how they split their TV shows into different seasons, and I really don't like how they bury good stuff underneath absolute rubbish.

naughto · 28-01-2020 11:57am

dulpit wrote: »

The choice on Prime is good. XRay is fab, and I wish Netflix had it. But the UI and subtitle behaviour of Prime is a pain in the neck. I don't like how they split their TV shows into different seasons, and I really don't like how they bury good stuff underneath absolute rubbish.

How does the xray work never bothered with it

dulpit · 28-01-2020 12:20pm

naughto wrote: »

How does the xray work never bothered with it

If you are on tablet/phone just tap the screen, if you are using app on console/TV/fire stick just press up arrow. It will show you details of who the actors are on screen, you can click into them if you want. It's linked to IMDB (Amazon own it). For some shows (Prime Originals mostly) you will also get information such as the song playing, trivia, etc.

If you cast from phone to device, then you have the xray on phone and doesn't interupt what's on screen.

PabloAndRoy · 28-01-2020 3:14pm

dulpit wrote: »

If you are on tablet/phone just tap the screen, if you are using app on console/TV/fire stick just press up arrow. It will show you details of who the actors are on screen, you can click into them if you want. It's linked to IMDB (Amazon own it). For some shows (Prime Originals mostly) you will also get information such as the song playing, trivia, etc.

If you cast from phone to device, then you have the xray on phone and doesn't interupt what's on screen.

And on the live footbal, you could use it to see the stats and scroll through the timeline and even watch any goals that you had missed*. Excellent.

* I only saw that feature in the early December matches and not the late December ones.

GreenandRed · 28-01-2020 3:25pm

Bridger Drab Panel wrote: »

I've got the uk primecand need to use a VPN to get movies. I use smart DNS on the router to get it on the TV and a VPN on my laptop to get it there.
Nice thing is that you can download the movies and watch them on the move.

Is there much difference between what you get on Prime in Ireland and the UK? I know the music streaming won't work here but seemingly is included in Prime in UK?

Ludo · 29-01-2020 5:32pm

PhiloCypher wrote: »

Just noticed Justified's on this. Don't know if it was recently added or I just somehow managed to miss it. Regardless, a rewatch is in order.

Thanks. Been meaning to watch Justified for a while now. Never noticed it on Prime. Tis a crap interface alright. And terrible at highlighting shows similar to your previous viewing.

sweetie · 29-01-2020 7:54pm

Ludo wrote: »

Thanks. Been meaning to watch Justified for a while now. Never noticed it on Prime. Tis a crap interface alright. And terrible at highlighting shows similar to your previous viewing.

What I wouldn't give to remove all that pay crap from the interface

Sleeper12 · 29-01-2020 8:13pm

sweetie wrote: »

What I wouldn't give to remove all that pay crap from the interface

There is an option on the app just to show free stuff

Clareman · 29-01-2020 8:45pm

I'm saying I like Prime video, there's surprisingly large amount of older shows like House that I enjoying dropping in an out of to have as background noise when I'm working on stuff.

sweetie · 29-01-2020 11:44pm

Sleeper12 wrote: »

There is an option on the app just to show free stuff

Really? Wonder is it available on my tv app. Thanks

Johnny Sausage · 30-01-2020 8:28am

Sleeper12 wrote: »

There is an option on the app just to show free stuff

where? i couldnt find it on my tablet or phone

Sleeper12 · 30-01-2020 9:11am

sweetie wrote: »

Really? Wonder is it available on my tv app. Thanks

Not on my TV app

Johnny Sausage wrote: »

where? i couldnt find it on my tablet or phone

It's on my phone & tablet for the last month or so. Top right hand corner. Different phones & different versions of Android have different apps. You might get an update soon

boardtc · 02-02-2020 12:23pm

boardtc wrote: »

Amazon Prime video via the Eir deal is not straightforward. I had to use the same email I use for eir, the email I use for my regular amazon account was not accepted. I then connected a 4K fire stick to the new amazon video account, i tried Fleabag first and a fair few other titles, but that all won’t play with an error code 5505 for invalid location.

Can someone please give me an example of a title that should definitely play so I can check it is working?

Why are there so many not available in Ireland?

That said some of the above comments that it does not work i Ireland via a Firestick are worrying :-(

To close my story. I had to create a new amazon prime account (with email to match my eir account email), separate from my normal amazon account, I bought the firestick on the later rather than the former, where there are no purchases. I ended up adding my revolut card and gave it a british address (parcelmotel). After doing this Amazon chat support did their thing and the Firestick now works 100%!

yankinlk · 03-02-2020 12:09am

What happened to Seinfeld

Tenger · 03-02-2020 12:32am

GreenandRed wrote: »

Is there much difference between what you get on Prime in Ireland and the UK? I know the music streaming won't work here but seemingly is included in Prime in UK?

Is it easy enough to switch regions. Just phone support and request?

I’ve added a UK address (sisters) and linked my revolut card to my Amazon.com account.
I might run into a problem as my account is .com rather than .co.uk.

icdg · 03-02-2020 11:01pm

More new third party content: Monk, Catfish, Lost, NCIS LA, and most of what South Park they didn’t already have (though that show seems to be on everywhere). And some Fireman Sam for the kids.

Ethereal Cereal · 04-02-2020 12:53pm

Anyone know if they plan on broadcasting Counterpart on Ireland or UK Prime?
Its streaming in the US, kindof a dose we dont get it here...

icdg · 04-02-2020 2:06pm

It’s on Starzplay, fwiw

Ethereal Cereal · 05-02-2020 11:43am

icdg wrote: »

It’s on Starzplay, fwiw

thanks for that, I had a look at Starzplay last night, its got a good bit on there I would watch, including a decent introductory offer. Does anyone know if you can register for Starzplay outside of the US, or UK even? I tried last night, but as far as I can see its not available in Ireland...

icdg · 05-02-2020 6:38pm

It’s available via the Apple TV app at €4.99 pm, seven day trial. Not a whole pile on it, mind you, but still probably better value than Apple TV+!

peteeeed · 05-02-2020 8:56pm

yankinlk wrote: »

What happened to Seinfeld

It's coming to channel 4/ all 4 app
First 3 seasons from this Friday then one a week added after that

Dave..M · 08-02-2020 10:10am

yankinlk wrote: »

What happened to Seinfeld

Some seasons are on All 4 now

holly8 · 08-02-2020 10:48am

Watching The Missing on amazon prime at the minute...its very good.

peteeeed · 08-02-2020 1:04pm

Dave..M wrote: »

Some seasons are on All 4 now

That's what I said 😊

john_doe. · 29-02-2020 12:08pm

Was wondering what advantages of a UK prime account these days
I.e what shows are available on UK region as oppose to ROI?

Charlie19 · 29-02-2020 12:23pm

john_doe. wrote: »

Was wondering what advantages of a UK prime account these days
I.e what shows are available on UK region as oppose to ROI?

Just ask them via online chat to switch it over for you and you can have a look. I get a message every couple of days to see if I want to switch back.

dulpit · 29-02-2020 6:50pm

john_doe. wrote: »

Was wondering what advantages of a UK prime account these days
I.e what shows are available on UK region as oppose to ROI?

Not sure exactly what shows I've been able to watch since switching to the UK version, but the main reason I've done it is that it makes the fire TV stick work properly with prime video

Tom Mann Centuria · 09-03-2020 2:26am

Loads of great older series on Prime now. Justified, Monk, Psych, Parks & Rec, Bones to name but five. As well as excellent new stuff like Good Omens, The Patriot, The Boys, The Expanse and Bosch.

Just a shame it's such a fugly layout of a site/app. I know they're encouraging you to buy things in amongst the prime shows and films but bleugh it makes for crappy browsing.

I think I've watched more Prime recently than Netflix.

Full_Circle_81 · 09-03-2020 9:35am

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Loads of great older series on Prime now. Justified, Monk, Psych, Parks & Rec, Bones to name but five. As well as excellent new stuff like Good Omens, The Patriot, The Boys, The Expanse and Bosch.

Just a shame it's such a fugly layout of a site/app. I know they're encouraging you to buy things in amongst the prime shows and films but bleugh it makes for crappy browsing.

I think I've watched more Prime recently than Netflix.

I think the option to "buy" stuff is only on the UK version, the Irish one doesn't have that. But both are very bad from a user interface perspective anyways.
But I agree, lots more great content now, especially for TV.

Lefty2Guns · 09-03-2020 7:18pm

Got Prime as part of Eir TV deal. Still can't figure out where to input the code to watch a programme. Keeps referring me to Prime/Video online. Very frustrating.

Any body suffer similar issues?

dulpit · 09-03-2020 11:44pm

Lefty2Guns wrote: »

Got Prime as part of Eir TV deal. Still can't figure out where to input the code to watch a programme. Keeps referring me to Prime/Video online. Very frustrating.

Any body suffer similar issues?

What code?

adelcrowsmel · 10-03-2020 9:10am

Lefty2Guns wrote: »

Got Prime as part of Eir TV deal. Still can't figure out where to input the code to watch a programme. Keeps referring me to Prime/Video online. Very frustrating.

Any body suffer similar issues?

I presume you are trying to register a smart tv or something? When I joined I opened the app on the TV and it had the code there and the exact website address to go to to enter that code online to register the device. Is the website to go to not being displayed on your devise?

Go to www.primevideo.com/mytv login and and enter your code there

Lefty2Guns · 10-03-2020 10:33am

adelcrowsmel wrote: »

I presume you are trying to register a smart tv or something? When I joined I opened the app on the TV and it had the code there and the exact website address to go to to enter that code online to register the device. Is the website to go to not being displayed on your devise?

Go to www.primevideo.com/mytv login and and enter your code there

Thats what I'm getting but when I go to the website I don't see where to input the code.

Lefty2Guns · 10-03-2020 10:34am

Streaming the app through an Apple TV device.

adelcrowsmel · 10-03-2020 11:12am

Lefty2Guns wrote: »

Thats what I'm getting but when I go to the website I don't see where to input the code.

I immediately get the option to add the code see screenshot. Maybe contact support and get them to register the devise for you if you dont have the option.

Amazon Prime Video, General Discussion [Ireland]

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