Amazon Prime Members Can Now Subscribe to Showtime and Other Channels à la Carte

[didymus]

WIRED:

Amazon Prime Members Can Now Subscribe to Showtime and Other Channels à la Carte

Ordering up TV channels a la carte has long been the dream of cable cord-cutters. Now that dream is closer to coming true thanks to Amazon. The online retailer said today that Amazon Prime members will now be able to buy subscriptions to Showtime, Starz, and dozens of other streaming channels. The company’s “Streaming Partners Program” lets TV networks and other video providers team up with the e-commerce giant to reach tens of millions of Prime members via Amazon’s site and Amazon Video app.

rime members, meanwhile, get free trials on all subscriptions and discounts on pricing. You can get CBS’ Showtime, for instance, as a standalone streaming service for $11 monthly; on Amazon’s Partners Program, Showtime costs $9 per month. Other available subscriptions include everything from on-demand music performances through Qello Concerts to the Lifetime Movie Club to the SundanceNow Documentary Club.

Sounds like a good deal for cable cutters, not sure if I’ll go for it. I have Amazon Prime and Netiflix but I don’t use either one all that much.

 

[boomerang]

I have Amazon Prime and I use it constantly. I also have a Roku and cut the cord a long time ago. Good riddance to bad TV! I can’t believe how much better TV is now, especially the price. Amazon and Netflix are about $8 a month, each. Combined with an antenna, I have all the quality TV I can stand for next to nothing. And yet I still sit here on the computer…

 

[JimG]

I have Amazon Prime and a Roku box. But I don’t like to subscribe to channels. I would rather pay per program rather than paying a monthly fee, because most of the time I don’t watch the monthly offerings. I do watch a lot of the Amazon Prime offerings on an irregular basis case by case basis.

 

[Gordon_Sims]

Do they have a list of what each channel offers and how much they cost? The one I clicked on only gave me the option of starting my free trial and didn’t give any other details.

 

[JimG]

Do they have a list of what each channel offers and how much they cost? The one I clicked on only gave me the option of starting my free trial and didn’t give any other details.

If I recall, I think that before you sign up, there will be a disclosure of the monthly cost after the trial period. Of course there are also many free channels on the Roku.

 

[ucfengr]

Do they have a list of what each channel offers and how much they cost? The one I clicked on only gave me the option of starting my free trial and didn’t give any other details.

Showtime and Starz are both $8.99 after the first week. We subscribed to Starz after my wife got hooked on “The Outlander” based on a Diane Garibaldi series.