Amazon Prime Video’s ad-free plan is getting a price hike

Amazon Prime Video is raising the terms of its ad-free program successful the US and adding respective caller features. Starting April 10th, Prime Video's ad-free tier volition outgo $4.99 per month alternatively of $2.99, and see "exclusive" entree to 4K/UHD streaming.

The terms summation comes two years aft Amazon switched each users connected Prime Video - which comes arsenic a perk with a modular Amazon Prime subscription - to an ad-supported program and began charging other for commercial-free streams. Now, the streamer is calling its ad-free tier Prime Video "Ultra," and is adding enactment for up to 5 simultaneous streams (up from three), up to 100 downloads (up from 25 …

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