1. I subscribe to Paramount+ through Amazon Channels, it works great, I can use either the Paramount+ app or Amazon Prime to watch/download. I'm thinking about moving some of my other subscriptions over.
2. HBOMax: Currently included with my cable plan, so I can use the HBOMax app. My understanding is, like Paramount+ if subscribed via Amazon Channels, you can still use the HBOMax app as well as watching through Amazon Prime/Channels. Is this correct?
3. Discovery+: Currently I subscribe to directly, so I use its app and the Streamfab Discovery+ downloader. Is anyone using Discovery+ subscribed via Amazon? I understand that way, you can't use the Discovery+ app.
I'm just curious how the experience with HBOMax and Discovery+ are through amazon? Can you easily find the shows you like? Is it as easy to navigate as their own apps?
KidJoe
Hi KidJoe,
1. The current subscription of Paramount+ Bundle (Paramount+/Showtime) at Paramount+ direct website is only two dollars more than what Amazon Prime charges for Paramount+ ($9.99). I don't think if you subscribe thru Amazon Prime with Paramount+ you get Showtime.
Is this the case?I'm waiting to see if they might bundle Paramount+ Channel with Showtime on Amazon before I subscribe thru Amazon for Para+ as a channel.
This leaves me two ways to download Paramount+/Showtime - either with StreamFab or The Competitor via Paramount+ direct website, but I also get Showtime.
2. HBOMax (commercial free) is currently being bundled with Cinemax on Amazon Prime for ~$23 with taxes. Because of the issues with StreamFab support for 1080p I went with this.
Once I subscribed to HBOMax/Cinemax bundle at Amazon Prime I went to HBOMax & signed in with provider choosing "Prime Video" and used my alternate email address (main one still had week left before HBOMax renewal).
You only have to do this one time.
This gives me 3 ways to do 1080p for HBO Max - The Competitor HBOMax Direct, The Competitor via Amazon HBO Channel and StreamFab via Amazon Prime HBO as Channel. Two ways for Cinemax - The Competitor/StreamFab via Amazon Prime.
But it also gives StreamFab an out to not work on making HBOMax direct website work at 1080 or throwing resources/money at getting HBOMax direct to work since users can go thru Amazon currently.
3. I subscribe thru Discovery+ thru Amazon and have been happy with it - I do think there has been a few instances of shows offered directly via Discovery+ that were not on Amazon after using Reelgood/Justwatch - but that was not an issue since I piggybacked off Dish Network to grab them.
Someone else encounter this?4. I also subscribed to the new Amazon bundle MGM+/Starz for ~$13 with taxes that Amazon is now offering.
One thing I don't like about Amazon is that it will offer you the same shows you actually get free with your subscriptions for a charge if you don't go thru the right menu such as Free for Me.
Amazon also sometimes splits shows into paths for different seasons, or has multiple listings that are not the free options you want. That makes it harder to find the one that's actually free with your subscriptions.
I've found myself just using Justwatch & Reelgood & then copying the link they provide to the free with my subscriptions into Amazon Prime the adding it to my watch list & downloading from my watch list, rather than sometimes searching on Amazon.
Mike
US - CST, No VPN, StreamFab Lifetime,
