by Martin Brinkmann on September 12, 2016 in Companies, Music and Video - Last Update: January 04, 2018 - 4 comments
Step 1: To set it up, go to the Prime Video app on your phone. There, locate the hamburger menu icon at the top-left corner. Tap on that to proceed. Step 2: On the following screen, select and tap on Settings. Step 3: The app will now show a number of setting, locate Parental Controls and tap on it.
Amazon Video is an add-on service for Prime members that works in many regards just like Netflix.
Amazon produces original series such as Bosch, Jean-Claude von Johnson or The Man in the High Castle that you may watch on the site, and third-party content that it licensed.
Shows and movies may be offered in multiple languages and with subtitles for languages on top of that.
There is usually no indication however if a movie or show supports that. While you can load it up to find out, there is a better way to go about it that may improve your experience on the site.
Filter Amazon Video content by language
What Amazon makes available differs from region to region. You may get shows or movies in the US that you cannot watch in Germany or the UK at that moment. This is very similar to Netflix.
This means that if you are abroad, you may only get access to local shows and movies, and not your usual selection.
You have one option however to find movies or shows in your language.
Search
Visit the main Amazon Video site to get started. The link brings you to the German Amazon Video site as I use it as an example.
Note: The US Amazon Video site offers fewer language options than other sites. You get the local language, and then at least English on top of that in most regions.
Use the search at the top to find content of interest. Amazon returns a list of results on the search results page that you may go through.
The left sidebar lists various filtering options that may come in handy. If you scroll down a bit on the page, you come eventually to the 'language spoken' and 'subtitles & closed captioning' section.
Language spoken lists all languages the movies or shows of the search results support. Simply make a selection there to filter the results so that only matching language content is listed.
The same is true for subtitles, and you may combine the two as well if you want.
This works well and should return only results that match the selected language or languages. The feature is a bit limited, as you may only use it when you search and not generally on Amazon.
Second option
There is a second option that you may explore. It depends largely on the regional Amazon store though and is not universal.
In Germany, you may search for OV or OMU on Amazon Video to find content that is offered in its original version, or in its original version with German subtitles.
So, if you only want content that is offered in its original version, which is English most of the time but not always, you may add OV or OMU to the search phrase to find only that content.
A quick search for OV returned more than 17,000 titles available in English, but also content in Japanese, French, Italian or Spanish.
Now You: Which language do you prefer media content to be in?
Filter Amazon Video content by language
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Find out how to filter Amazon Video content by language, so that only TV shows or movies in the selected language are returned on the site.
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AdvertisementThere's now an easy way to see the full list of free e-book titles available to Kindle owners with Amazon Prime.
In case you missed it, Amazon recently launched the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, which allows Amazon Prime members to check out up to one e-book a month for free with no due date.
The only problem is that it wasn't so easy to find all the more than 5,000 titles in the Kindle Store that qualify for free borrowing. However, as one might expect, a somewhat helpful link has cropped up in the blogosphere.
Click on this link to get to the list.
The shortcut comes courtesy of Publishers Marketplace Automat, which I found via a Publishers Lunch tweet yesterday.
Curiously, the Publishers Marketplace Automat link misstates the number of titles--it says it '[l]ets you browse 2,700 Prime lending titles right on their site,' when the actual number is currently showing as 5,377. The Amazon link also directs you to the list of print books that are eligible for free Prime shipment--you need to click on the Kindle-specific link that I supplied above.
The default sort on the list is by popularity, but you can use the genre list on the left-hand side to filter accordingly.
It's important to remember that Prime-eligible loaners can only be read on Kindle hardware devices; you can't read them with Kindle apps on devices such as the iPad or Android smartphones and tablets, nor can you read them on your computer in the browser-based Kindle Cloud Reader. Likewise, you can't 'send' loaners to Kindle devices from your Web browser, as you can with e-book purchases; you'll have to look up the book on the Kindle itself to download it.
That said, the link lets you browse Prime-eligible titles, so you can be sure that you won't be buying (or wish-listing) a title that you can otherwise read for free.
In other Kindle Owners' Lending Library news, not everybody is happy about Amazon's latest move. As expected, there's been some chatter from wary publishers as well as agents and authors wondering how authors will be properly compensated.
The compensation issue is full of questions because it's currently unclear how Amazon is stocking the titles in its Lending Library. Paid Content reports that Amazon is paying a lump sum to publishers who agreed to be part of the new program. But in other cases--according to Publishers Marketplace (registration required for full article)--Amazon isn't asking for consent and is simply paying the wholesale rate for the 'free' book (about 50 percent off the list price) and taking the loss. (CNET hasn't independently verified any of the publishers' deals--or lack thereof--with Amazon Prime.) As this is new territory for publishers, it's unclear how all this plays out with authors' contracts.
In the meantime, though, it makes that $79 that many of us spend on Amazon Prime membership a better and better deal.
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