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Amazon announced it is expanding Prime Video's news section with on-demand short-form clips covering local and national stories, initially available on TVs and living room devices before expanding to web and mobile apps. The clips will appear in Trending Topics and Local News carousels within the app's News destination, supplementing existing news partnerships available to all U.S. users regardless of Prime membership.
Amazon's Prime Video announced an AI feature that digitally alters actors' mouth movements to align with dubbed dialogue tracks, starting with the English version of German series Maxton Hall. The company says it plans to expand the tool to other titles, framing it as a way to make dubbed content feel more natural to viewers.
Amazon announced new shopping tools for Prime Video, letting viewers browse products tied to shows through an upgraded X-Ray Shop tab and a 'shop the scene' feature powered by its Lens technology. Users can pause a title on Fire TV, open X-Ray, and jump into a synced product feed in the Amazon Shopping app.
Amazon Prime Video has rolled out an AI-driven visual effects feature that adjusts actors' lip movements to match dubbed audio tracks, starting with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall's first two seasons. The company says the tool blends AI and VFX to sync mouth movements with human-translated dialogue, and plans to bring it to season 3 in December and more titles later.
A new breakdown outlines how fans can watch most NFL games this season without a costly cable package by combining a digital antenna, NFL Plus, and Amazon Prime Video for Thursday games. It also notes that international, holiday, and Super Bowl games are scattered across Netflix, CBS, Fox, NBC, Peacock, ESPN, and ABC, meaning no single cheap service covers everything.
Spectrum is now offering a complimentary Amazon Prime subscription, normally priced at $14.99 monthly, to customers enrolled in its Internet Assist program for low-income households and seniors. Eligibility includes recipients of SSI, SNAP, Medicaid or the National School Lunch Program, and both new and existing Spectrum internet customers can claim it regardless of which internet tier they use. The perk arrives shortly after Spectrum reported losing 172,000 internet subscribers in its latest quarterly earnings.
According to a New York Times report, Netflix executives have discussed integrating third-party streaming services such as Peacock and Fox One directly into its app. It's not yet clear whether this would mean selling subscriptions to those services or embedding their content, and no deal is currently imminent.