Most frequently, you pay $4 to rent an HD movie or a little less for an individual TV episode, but you may pay more, or you may only be offered the option of buying the video, because that's what the copyright holder wants. Amazon is basically passing on the license fee for you to pay. When Amazon doesn't have the video you want, Amazon offers to rent the video to you. When Netflix doesn't have the video you want, you are out of luck. Both companies pick and choose what they want to license based on the cost and relative importance to their members. Both companies must license, aka pay, for the privilege of providing those videos to you.Īccordingly, both companies license less than 1% of the the TV shows and movies in existence. Amazon Prime videos that are included at no additional cost with your Prime membership are like Netflix videos.īoth companies do not own the rights to 99.99% of TV shows and movies in existence.
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