In my general dealings with Amazon, I never worry. No problem, I paid the $3.99 rental fee with free credits from my digital account. That’s OK because Amazon has access to basically EVERYTHING, you just have to rent it. So the other day when my kids wanted to watch the original Christopher Reeve Superman we found it’s not part of the Amazon library. If you select a cheaper/longer shipping method you get a 1$ credit toward digital content. One last thing, sometimes, when I’m shopping on Amazon I order an item that I don’t necessarily need in two days. We don’t own any of the latest kindle stuff. She used to use it to read PDFs for work but I see it mostly just gathering dust on our charging table. I can’t remember the last time I used the browser-based cloud player. I don’t really even know how those 31 got there. If I wanted to pay $24.99/year I could upload 250,000 songs. With Amazon Music, my Prime account gets me 250 songs uploaded. Plus, you can use the Fire TV to use your photos as a screensaver (like Apple TV does) and rather than holding up my iPhone to show videos to the family you just put them in your Amazon Cloud Drive and viola! You can watch all your phone videos (and I take a TON) on your TV. I have this because once upon a time we had maxed out our Dropbox and we decided to start using Amazon as our additional storage locker. I pay $59.99/year (4.99/month) for unlimited storage for files and videos and photos. It’s been something the kids show everyone who comes in the house, and it can be fun. There are certain “wake” words you use (you can pick either “Amazon” or “Alexa”) and then you can ask it questions. It’s basically a similar thing to Apple’s Siri, but it lives in your house. It’s as close as we can get to having our own synth like on Humans. It showed up on my doorstep and it’s been a valued computer butler ever since. The Echo is something I added to my cart on a lark and then forgot to take out. I have an Amazon ECHO, which retails for $179 but I got for $99 in April 2015. It gets you unlimited storage for photos and 5GB for videos and files. No questions asked.Īnd yes, I have Amazon Prime ($99/yr), which gets you free prime shows and movies. When the remote stopped working after like seven months, I called Amazon and even though it was out of warranty they sent me another one for free. We take ours on vacation with us every year to the beach house and you just plug it in, connect to wifi, and bam - all your shows are there. You can plug a network cable right into it but it also has built in wifi, which makes it amazingly easy to situate and use. It’s the best voice technology I’ve ever dealt with. My five year old who says R’s like AWR’s says the name of a show into it and it’s always right. No matter which member of your family, it always gets it right. How many products can you say that about? The remote has a push-to-talk button and you just say the name of ANYTHING into it, and it always gets it right. Let me just plug this product for a minute. I use Amazon Fire TV on my main TV (which retails for $99, but I got for $79 in May of 2014). Cloud services are kind of the anti-Comcast/Time Warner, because in my experience, they’re all kind of amazing, the customer service is top notch, you pay for what tier of service you want, and they actually work. I’m also an avid gamer, so I have additional fees for things like an Xbox live membership, in addition to every dime I spend on the actual games.īut one conundrum I find myself in is in the world of online storage. In my case, I paid every single dime he did, and in addition I also had NFL Sunday Ticket and a number of football-related apps ( all of which I’ve now cancelled). Dustin wrote a great piece a couple of weeks ago discussing how much he pays for cable and other forms of entertainment.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |