{"id":2826,"date":"2016-04-18T11:34:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T03:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/amazon-launches-monthly-video-streaming-service-to-rival-netflix\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T11:34:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T03:34:16","slug":"amazon-launches-monthly-video-streaming-service-to-rival-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/amazon-launches-monthly-video-streaming-service-to-rival-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon launches monthly video streaming service to rival Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Amz0987\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE4L2ZhL2FtejA5ODcuMGFjNjcuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJNTc1eDMyMyMKZQlqcGc\/454aff75\/637\/amz0987.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Amazon+launches+monthly+video+streaming+service+to+rival+Netflix&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F17%2Famazon-prime-video%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F17%2Famazon-prime-video%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Netflix just got a brand new and extremely powerful competitor: Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the company launched a new, stand-alone service called Prime Video that will allow users to sign up for a monthly video streaming service for just $8.99<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/19\/netflix-best-tips-tricks\/\">The best tips and tools to get the most out of Netflix<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That price is one dollar more than Netflix&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/getstarted\">lowest plan<\/a> ($7.99) which lacks HD video, but a full dollar less than Netflix&#8217;s popular Standard plan (HD included), which goes for $9.99. The service will include the ability to download shows for offline viewing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/article_email\/amazon-ups-the-ante-on-streaming-video-1460944802-lMyQjAxMTI2MDE5ODAxMjg4Wj\">according to<\/a> the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>.   <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/17\/amazon-prime-video\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/amazon\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/netflix\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Netflix<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/amazon-prime\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Amazon Prime<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/video-streaming\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Video Streaming<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/media\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Media<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/_VKUU5Dv6Zo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix just got a brand new and extremely powerful competitor: Amazon. On Sunday, the company launched a new, stand-alone service called Prime Video that will allow users to sign up for a monthly video streaming service for just $8.99 See &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/amazon-launches-monthly-video-streaming-service-to-rival-netflix\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1036,2052,901,764,2053],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-prime","tag-media","tag-netflix","tag-video-streaming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}