Amazon would soon like to broadcast content live via the Prime Video streaming service.
Sports fans in particular should benefit from this offer.
With
Prime video
, many users connect a classic streaming offering, similar to Netflix *.
However,
Amazon
will set itself
apart
from this competitor
in the future.
Netflix
does not offer live broadcasts of content.
On
Prime Video,
on the other hand, this option should be available soon.
Anyone who thinks that films and series will be shown in the classic way on TV in the future is wrong.
In addition to the current content, the company wants to open up a whole new area, namely
sport
.
Amazon wants to broadcast the UEFA Champions League live on Prime Video
Football fans have known for months that they
need
a
Prime Video subscription
to watch this year's top
UEFA Champions League games
.
A long time ago, Amazon secured the rights to the soccer event.
So far the only question is how the games should be broadcast and whether additional fees will apply.
Users already had to pay extra for the Bundesliga games, which were
broadcast
via the
Eurosport Player Channel
following a DAZN cooperation with
Amazon
.
For channels of this type such as STARZPLAY, Comedy Central & Co., subscribers are known to have to pay additional fees of different amounts.
There now seems to be a specific answer: In the future, Prime users will be
spared a surcharge for the Champions League
, as
Amazon
is planning
its own live broadcast under the name
“Prime Video Live”
.
A spokesman for the company confirmed to the
Golem.de
portal
that “a broadcast license for the Prime Live Sports offer in Germany has been applied for at the Bavarian State Center for New Media”.
One is currently checking whether a license is even necessary.
With the option of
broadcasting
sports
live at
no extra charge
,
Amazon Prime Video
will in any case be much broader in the future than its streaming competitors
Netflix
and
Disney +
.
Instead, the company could become an even more dangerous competitor to TV stations or
Sky
.
Should Amazon secure the rights to further events, more viewers may migrate from television and streaming services with sports offers.
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Amazon Prime Video: will films and series be broadcast live in the future?
So far it is only known that
Amazon
would like to use the planned live feature for sports broadcasts.
It
remains to be seen
whether it
will be expanded to include
films and series
.
Live premieres of major Amazon productions such as the planned “Lord of the Rings” series would be quite conceivable.
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