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Amazon is discontinuing its standalone isolated streaming TV carrier after date because it appears to consolidate its content material choices beneath High Video.
The carrier, referred to as Freevee, introduced in 2019 beneath IMDb, the movie and TV web page Amazon purchased in 1998. It presented a solid of isolated, ad-supported video, together with fresh layout and a few High Video content material, essentially thru an app.
The Freevee app will close indisposed in August, at which level customers will be capable of attend to presentations and flicks on High Video for isolated with no subscription to Amazon’s High commitment program, in keeping with a understand to customers.
“Prime Video is the new exclusive home for Freevee TV shows, movies and Live TV,” the attention states.
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Amazon telegraphed closing November that the corporate would breeze indisposed the Freevee carrier to “deliver a simpler viewing experience for customers,” Deadline reported.
The corporate is sunsetting Freevee upcoming introducing advertisements on High Video in January 2024. High Video is incorporated in a $15-a-month High club, or as a standalone carrier for $9. Customers pays an extra $2 a date to forgo advertisements.
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