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However, you can gain access to a much wider selection of videos if you’re willing to pay per video–either as a temporary rental or as a purchase you can watch as much as you want. Amazon and YouTube both offer this feature as part of their streaming plans, which is convenient.

Users can download the updated app - now called " Amazon Video" - from the App Store for free. Today's announcement aims to bolster Amazon Prime Video - which is bundled into Amazon's $99/year Prime service - with a feature most other streaming services have yet to support. Re/code reports that "in most cases," users will have 15 to 30 days to view the content once it has been downloaded.

But also offerings from CBS (“The Good Wife”), Fox (“Sons of Anarchy”), MGM (“The Hunger Games”) and Paramount (“Star Trek Into Darkness”). Amazon says it has “thousands” of titles available for download.Īnd it looks like those titles include a pretty diverse lineup: There are Amazon’s own home-grown shows, like “Transparent”, of course. The feature isn’t available for every video Amazon streams, since Amazon needs to work out deals with individual content owners (that is – pay them more money). The company still claims to have "thousands" of videos ready to support the new service. The feature will let Prime users download video content for later viewing when not in direct proximity of a trustworthy Wi-Fi connection, but won't be available for every single show and film currently offered on Amazon Prime Video.

The service had previously supported such a feature, but it was exclusively available for Amazon's own Fire tablets, with today marking the first expansion onto Apple's smartphones. Amazon's Prime Video streaming service today announced the ability for its users to download television shows and movies to an iPhone, iPad, or Android device (via Re/code).