Nowadays, little by little, we are getting used to video-on-demand platforms such as Netflix, HBO or Amazon Prime Video. These offer us a huge number of advantages for daily entertainment.
We can use them on many platforms and devices , which is also precisely one of the main advantages it presents. In this way, whether we are subscribed to, for example, Netflix or we are Prime customers of the e-commerce giant, Amazon, we can enjoy its contents almost anywhere. Whether we are talking about mobile devices or desktops, the heads of these platforms offer us everything necessary so that we can use them at all times.
What’s more, some of these even allow content to be downloaded locally, greatly increasing its versatility. As we say, there are many video- on-demand platforms , but there are more popular and used than others. This is the case of the aforementioned Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, for example, proposals that surely many are more than familiar to you.
In fact, in these same lines we want to focus on one of them, specifically the app for Windows 10 that Amazon’s video service already has available.
Launch of the Amazon Prime Video app
This is something that many users have been demanding for a long time, specifically we are talking about the native UWP app for Windows 10 of this video platform. Well, now those who want to get it can download it from the official system store, the Microsoft Store . To start we will tell you that it is surprisingly light software, since it occupies less than 40 megabytes on the hard drive.
Therefore, once we have downloaded and installed it on the computer, the first thing we must do is indicate the region in which we are located.
We tell you this because it is already available in our country, among others, which is why we have been able to test it first hand. Then, once the area where we are is indicated, click on the Identify button so that we have the opportunity to enter our personal credentials . At this point, it is mandatory to know that in order to access the Amazon video platform, we must be subscribed to the Amazon Prime service. Therefore, it is associated with an email and a password to access the account, which is the data that we also enter here.
What the Amazon Prime Video app for Windows offers
Well, once we have successfully authenticated ourselves in the new application, we are faced with an interface very similar to the one we see in the web version . On the left side of it we see a series of options that we are going to interact with here. In principle we find the Start option, which is the one that takes us to the content that Amazon Prime Video houses, for free.
From here we can already navigate between the different categories that Amazon offers us, or continue to see the content started at some point in the past. At the same time we can use the search engine located in the upper left corner of the window to locate titles directly. Of course, from here we have access to free content, something else is already paid that we will see later.
At the same time, to limit the location of these titles a bit, we can also click on the Categories section, although it is not too categorized. Here we can choose between movies, series, children’s content, or that can be downloaded; a bit limited in terms of categories.
Payment contents on Amazon Prime
Of course, until now we have talked about content that is included for free with Amazon Prime Video and its subscription . But then, from this application for Windows 10 that we are talking about, we also have the possibility to rent or buy content not available for free, or to make it our property forever. This is something that we are going to achieve just by accessing the Store section.
Here, as in the previous section, we find a good number of movies, but in this case we can either pay their rent or purchase.
In this way and from the application for Windows 10 itself , we will have the possibility of renting HD titles that are more current or limited. In the same way we can buy them to be able to have them even if we are no longer subscribed to Amazon in the future. Say that here we find HD or UHD qualities, depending on the film and its availability.
Download content to enjoy offline
One of the most striking points that this application for Windows 10 presents us, is something that we also find in the Netflix proposal. Specifically, we are referring to the possibility of downloading content for viewing in Windows 10 when we do not have an Internet connection, or it is bad.
To do this we just have to go to the Downloads section of the main interface. At first, if it is the first time that we use the app , obviously we are not going to find anything, so we will have to click on the button Find something to download.
This will give us direct access to those titles, series or movies , which are available for download. Therefore, next to the usual Add to watchlist and Watch trailer buttons, we find another new one called Download. Thus, it is enough that we click on it for the download to start automatically. The progress of the download is seen as the Pause button is circled.
How to delete movies and series in Windows
Once this is done, instead of a button to download , now we see one to Delete. At the same time, now when accessing the Downloads area, we see the titles downloaded, as well as the space they occupy on disk. From the button located in the upper right corner of each of them, we also have the possibility of eliminating them.
How to download the Amazon Prime Video app on Windows
As we mentioned earlier, this is an application that is available now, completely free of charge, in the official Windows 10 store. Therefore, as you can imagine, it is a UWP app for the Microsoft system, so that the first thing we do is access the store itself.
Then we leave the direct link to it so you can download and install this video application. Thus, as you have seen, this will allow us to reproduce movies and series from the electronic commerce giant. We can also rent and buy other titles, as well as download to see locally those that are available.
