It’s a shame my - and no doubt many other customers - actions don’t make a headline like this:

“Customer drops Prime subscription unless Amazon stops taking the piss”

Still, that extra £95 will get me a good few bottles of nice wine to go with an eye patch I should imagine.

The streaming services seem to be going through their own rounds of enshittification - stopping password sharing, hiking prices and degrading the product they’re offering.

I presume Big Tech feels like they’ve got a critical mass of people locked in so they can gouge them just enough that they won’t care or notice. Then they’ll see how that impacts their bottom line and try again. I’m glad I am largely out now

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Amazon has confirmed it’s not a mistake — your Amazon Prime Video subscription no longer includes Dolby Vision HDR or Dolby Atmos surround sound.

That’s on top of the ads that Amazon injected into the service on January 29th.

That’s the word from 4KFilme, which discovered that their smart TVs from Sony, LG, and Samsung were now displaying content in HDR10 with Dolby Digital 5.1 as opposed to the higher fidelity options they’d enjoyed previously.

Amazon spokesperson Katie Barker confirms to The Verge that it’s a deliberate move: “Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos capabilities are only available on the ad free option, on relevant titles.”

While price hikes are no longer remotely unusual in the streaming video space, where Netflix now charges $22.99 a month for its 4K tier, it’s a bit harder to compare Amazon’s prices to Netflix.

Prime Video is also available as an $8.99-per-month standalone subscription; if you subscribe that way and add $2.99 per month, it’s more like a 28 percent price hike.

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