Brief Comparison of Various Streaming services currently available in India - Part 1

In India various Streaming Services is booming and helping the consumers watch Quality on-demand content, with less Advertisement intrusion. The increase in consumers subscribers is resulting in more Web Series getting produced by Netflix, Amazon as well as the leading Television producers like Balaji. This is also resulting in leading movie directors like Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane directing a popular Web Series Sacred Games. This also featured leading actor Saif Ali Khan acting in this series. So overall I am very happy with Quality of Content, Quality of Streaming we are getting from these various Streaming Services.

Below I am trying to list down various Streaming Services currently available in India and provide details on the type of content, quality of streaming, Subscriptions fees etc offered by these providers, to help you in deciding to choose the right Stream Services that you should probably subscribe to watch the various content.

I will write this over multiple parts with first part dedicated to 2 leading Streaming Service providers globally Netflix and Amazon Prime Video

Netflix
Platforms on which it is available: Android, Android TV, iOS, WebOS (LG), Tizen (Samsung), Google Chrome Cast, Amazon Fire TV, Web
Type of Content: English Movies, Hindi Movies, Regional movies including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Popular US based Web Series, and Hindi Web Series
Streaming Options: SD, HD (1080p), 4K (2160P) and Sound being 5.1 for most of the content
Subscription Fee: 

• First month is free
• Basic - only SD is available and 1 Screen with 500 INR / month
• Standard HD - 2 Screens with 650 INR / month
• Premium Ultra HD - 4 screens with 800 INR / month

Overall Rating:  

• Most expensive streaming services currently available in India
• Quality of streaming is great, and some content is available 4K HDR, Dolby Vision - so people with 4K TV can subscribe to Premium Ultra HD pack to watch the content in 4K
• Leading US Web Series content is available
• English movie content is lot better than the other competitors like the Amazon Prime
• Hindi and Regional content is also quite good
• Leaving aside its subscription fee, one of the streaming service one must mostly subscribe specifically if you want to watch good quality streaming content

Amazon Prime Video

Platforms on which it is available: Android, iOS, WebOS (LG), Tizen (Samsung), Amazon Fire TV, Web

Type of Content: English Movies, Hindi Movies, Regional movies including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi, Popular US based Web Series, and Hindi Web Series

Streaming Options: SD, HD (1080p), and some 4K HDR Content. Sound is 5.1 for most of the content

Subscription Fee: 

• Bundled with Amazone Prime subscription which provides one the access to Amazon prime Free delivery services, also free access to Amazon Music, and now New Prime Reading on Kindle
• Monthly 129 / month, Annual 999 / month

Overall Rating:

• With the amount of services Amazon Prime subscriptions provides and the price at which it is provided compared to its competitors like Netflix, Hotstar etc, I would say it is No Brainer  to subscribe to Amazon Prime
• Also unlike Netflix they provide Annual subscription which makes it more cheaper
• I have been subscribed to Amazone Prime for now almost 2 years, and the quality of streaming is as good as we get in Netflix
• Quality of content has improved over period of time. English movie content is probably lot lesser compared to Netflix, but India movie content including Bollywood and Regional movies is quite good
• Definitely one of the must subscribe Streaming Services currently available in India

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