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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday November 22 2016, @04:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the one-stream-to-rule-them-all dept.

Amazon.com looks like it is about to wade deeper into competition with Netflix, by making at least one of its new self-produced programs available for viewing around the world.

At about the 45-second mark of the video below, James May of new "Amazon Original" The Grand Tour says "In December we will be launching the show globally which means you will be able to watch ... in over 200 countries around the world."

The Grand Tour retains most of the talent from the BBC's global hit Top Gear and has become Amazon's flagship as it seeks to create a global entertainment business. But at the time of writing, Amazon's video service only operates in a handful of countries.

Announcing that The Grand Tour is ready to roll through 200 nations suggests that Amazon has made the necessary investments to offer streamed video around the world. And even though Amazon.com is rather close to a provider of the necessary infrastructure - sibling Amazon Web Services - it is hard to imagine it would go to all the trouble of global rollout just so that customers can enjoy Clarkson & Co.

There can be only one.


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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday November 22 2016, @08:51PM

    by isostatic (365) on Tuesday November 22 2016, @08:51PM (#431475) Journal

    There are still rights to consider - background music for example - which may cause issues on occasion. There's then countries that want to censor the broadcast (china perhaps), but in the whole yes, country based distribution should be going the way of the dinosaur.

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