NBC Agreement With Amazon Prime Adds Hundreds of Shows

[kerryket]

With Nexus 7 proving to be quite the competitor against the Kindle Fire, the Fire is going to need every advantage possible, especially if they decide to create a successor. Amazon just announced today that they will be adding hundreds of popular TV episodes from NBC for the Kindle Fire owners with an expanded Prime Instant Video agreement with NBCUniversal Cable & New Media Distribution. Included in this expanded video content is shows like Friday Night Lights, Parks and Recreation, Heroes and Battlestar Galactica.

We mine as well throw out TV’s out now, shouldn’t we? This new agreement could be the advantage that the Kindle Fire was looking for, though I am not entirely sure it’ll be a game changing decision with the whole Nexus 7 vs Kindle Fire competition. Here’s some things that Amazon had to say about this:

“We are excited to be working with NBCUniversal to add their award-winning lineup of TV shows such as Parks and Recreation and Friday Night Lights to Prime Instant Video,” said Brad Beale, Director of Digital Video Content Acquisition for Amazon. “We continue to invest heavily in our content selection for Prime members, and have now reached over 22,000 movies and TV episodes available instantly with unlimited streaming.”

“We are thrilled to have several of our iconic programs available to subscribers of Amazon Prime, a service focused on the best possible consumer experience,” said Frances Manfredi, President, Cable & New Media Distribution for NBCUniversal. “We look forward to further expanding NBCU’s content offering available to Prime subscribers in the near future.”

All that said, is anyone looking forward to these new episodes on the Kindle Fire? While it might be hard to watch on a 7 inch tablet, its a pretty nice new feature coming to Amazon Prime subscribers. Maybe NBC will be doing similar licensing deals with Google in the future too? Surely they know they’ll be able to bank off of this even though the airing of it on TV already makes them hundreds of thousands of dollars.

source: Talk Android

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[EbonySnow]

 thats very interesting

[Ladyisis]

Interesting! Thanks for sharing.

[websorceress]

I don't use one but that's cool.......

[johnny4ever]

tfs

[mommybug77]

I don't use prime for anything but the shipping

[kerryket]

I had prime for the trial period, and I really took advantage of the savings, but did not continue.  We just have not had the cash on hand to do that.

[robertmommie]

We have amazon prime and a tablet but not a kindle.

[kanake]

I dont have prime, but that's good.

[kimsardo]

 I'd like to see everything from FX on Amazon.

[Marz31]

I just switched the prime to my account so I could borrow books on my fire and also stream (and obviously DH can log in to my account and stream on his computer too). I'm happy to see them getting even more content!