Amazon Prime Video is rolling out just a few function that lets customers shuffle by episodes of TV exhibits and play one at random. The new function seems to be accessible solely on the Android app of Amazon Prime Video for now, and has sure different limitations by way of the collection of exhibits. The function is aimed toward serving to customers discover content material to observe at random with out having to look an excessive amount of — good for if you need to go on a rewatch binge of previous exhibits or children cartoons, amongst other forms.
The function seems to be rolling out for Android units for now, and was accessible on our app once we checked. The shuffle operate solely exhibits the episodes of the precise present you have got chosen – and is additional restricted to episodes inside the similar season or assortment, so it will not randomly pull up a horror present in the course of a cartoon binge, for instance. Netflix has additionally been engaged on an identical function, however Amazon appears to have crushed it to a wider rollout right here.
Users of Amazon Prime Video who will discover some attraction on this function are those that watch sitcoms, notably older exhibits which have doubtless already been watched a number of occasions. Since the order of viewing episodes is not as vital with these type of exhibits, shuffling episodes to observe one at random – even inside a season – may show helpful in getting viewers into the content material shortly and with fewer limitations that require a option to be made. Such a function might additionally turn out to be useful with kids’s content material, the place the actual episode and order of viewing don’t have any actual affect on the expertise.
Netflix has been testing an identical function since August 2020, and has announced that it’s going to roll out to all customers a while in 2021. The implementation is totally different although, in that it shuffles by your entire Netflix catalogue to pick out one thing utterly at random, whereas Amazon’s implementation requires the consumer to first choose a present and season, earlier than then deciding on solely a person episode inside these parameters at random.
While the function seems to solely be accessible on Android for now, it’s doable that it’s going to finally roll out for different platforms comparable to iOS, Fire TV, and Android TV as effectively. Of course, such a function will not be too helpful when watching ordered TV exhibits that observe a linear plot, but it surely ought to be interesting to folks rewatching their favorite exhibits.
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