If you want to enjoy content with Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision HDR on Amazon Prime Video, you must book the additional paid subscription.
Our news about the removal of Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision from Amazon Prime Video’s ad-financed subscription has caused quite a stir. Forbes magazine, The Verge, Engadget, Der Stern, RTL.de, Sky.de, t3.com, among others, reported on the abuses uncovered on the streaming platform. At the request of several media outlets, there is now unfortunately the sad certainty that the removal of Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision from the ad-financed Prime Video subscription is not a mistake, but was calculated that way by Amazon. The provider withheld the information that the two Dolby formats were no longer available without the additional payment of 2.99 euros per month until the very end.
Katie Parker, spokesperson for Amazon: “Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos features are only available on the ad-free option and on relevant titles.”
Prime Video is reducing its range of features
This means that from now on the maximum audiovisual quality that you can expect on Prime Video without an additional subscription is 4K resolution with HDR10 and Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. HDR10+ will also continue to be offered “free of charge”. However, the selection of content with HDR10+ is limited and TV manufacturers such as LG Electronics do not support the standard at all. It’s clear from week to week that the golden days of video streaming are over. The services that have been able to achieve ever greater success thanks to the loyalty of customers, often over many years, are now moving strongly towards profitability. As an end customer, you are completely at the mercy of the seemingly arbitrary changes made by the providers. Be it the pricing, the features of the subscriptions or the integration of advertising. Unfortunately, the smallest protest that remains is to cancel your existing subscription.
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