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Sunday, September 28th, 2014 11:55 pmI wanted to watch the pilot of Amazon's "Transparent" series which has gotten such good reviews.
First I tried playing it in Firefox, via HDMI cable to the big TV. It started loading and then seemed to go into some kind of loop - showing a split second of something, and then going back to the round circle "loading" icon, and then repeating.
Then I tried playing it in IE. At first it seemed to work, but then it did the looping thing again. So then I tried playing it on the laptop without using the HDMI cable. It still didn't work... or did it? I don't remember. I was irked at it not working on the TV.
Then, based on something mentioned on this page, I changed the Amazon Instant Video settings to use Flash rather than Silverlight.
Using Flash, the video played successfully on the TV, but it was very jerky. (I don't have these issues with Netflix streaming video. This isn't giving me a good impression of Amazon's service.)
So then I decided to just watch it on the laptop. That went pretty well until about 3/4ths of the way through the video, when it stopped and showed the "Connecting" icon for over 10 minutes. I had to log out and back in for it to work again.
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Only the pilot is free to watch. It looks like the other episodes are only available through Amazon Prime - it looks like you can't pay to watch them individually without Prime. Is that right?
First I tried playing it in Firefox, via HDMI cable to the big TV. It started loading and then seemed to go into some kind of loop - showing a split second of something, and then going back to the round circle "loading" icon, and then repeating.
Then I tried playing it in IE. At first it seemed to work, but then it did the looping thing again. So then I tried playing it on the laptop without using the HDMI cable. It still didn't work... or did it? I don't remember. I was irked at it not working on the TV.
Then, based on something mentioned on this page, I changed the Amazon Instant Video settings to use Flash rather than Silverlight.
Using Flash, the video played successfully on the TV, but it was very jerky. (I don't have these issues with Netflix streaming video. This isn't giving me a good impression of Amazon's service.)
So then I decided to just watch it on the laptop. That went pretty well until about 3/4ths of the way through the video, when it stopped and showed the "Connecting" icon for over 10 minutes. I had to log out and back in for it to work again.
..
Only the pilot is free to watch. It looks like the other episodes are only available through Amazon Prime - it looks like you can't pay to watch them individually without Prime. Is that right?