Amazon. com Help Download Photos and Videos Using a Web Browser

Amazon Prime Video Usage Rules

As described in the Amazon Prime Video Terms of Use, due to limitations imposed on us by our content suppliers, the videos we make available to you on Amazon Prime Video are subject to restrictions on viewing (for example, through streaming or download) and on the length of time we make them available to you. The specific restrictions applicable to each of your videos depends on whether you purchase the video, rent the video, access the video on a subscription basis (for example, through Prime Video) through a paid subscription or a promotional trial, or access the video through First Episode Free (where available). These restrictions may change over time as we add new features, devices and content to our service. The following are restrictions for accessing Amazon Prime Video through your Web browser and compatible Internet-connected TVs, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, Fire tablets and other compatible devices.

Amazon Cloud Drive

Amazon Cloud Drive

Editors' Review

By Donald Bell / March 29, 2011

There's been a lot of talk about storing our media in "the cloud" over the past few years, but not a lot of action. We've seen start-ups such as mSpot and MP3tunes tackle the music locker idea while options like SugarSync and Dropbox lure people looking for more general file backup solutions. Still, no one yet has been able to push a cloud storage service into the mainstream. With Cloud Drive, Amazon. com is hoping to change that.

The online megastore's Cloud Drive online storage service starts with a free 5GB base plan that can be increased to 20GB, 50GB, 100GB, 200GB, 500GB, and 1,000GB, priced at $1 per gigabyte, per year (so that a 100GB plan costs $100 per year). For a limited time, customers who purchase an album from Amazon's MP3 store are automatically upgraded to a 20GB trial account for one year.

What do you get?

The promise of a product like Amazon's Cloud Drive is that you can upload all of the precious media files from all of your computers and devices (home, work, phone) to one common place, so that you're never stranded without access to your digital media.

Aside from Amazon's handy cross-platform uploader and downloader utilities and its browser-based tools for viewing, downloading, and streaming your stuff, Amazon is also throwing in a Cloud Player feature within the Amazon MP3 application for Android. Using the free app, you can stream all the music you have stored in the cloud, or download your tracks on the fly for offline playback.

How does it work?

Once you've chosen your plan on Amazon's site, you'll be prompted to download and install an MP3 Uploader tool that runs within the Mac - and PC-compatible Adobe Air platform (a separate download if you don't already have it). After Amazon's software is installed, it will run a quick scan of your drive, report on how many music files you have available to upload, and show you how much storage is available with your current plan.

If you don't have room for your whole collection, you can use the software to manually select which artists, songs, or playlists you'd like to upload.

After uploading, you can navigate through your music collection using Amazon's browser-based Cloud Player. Similar to the music locker interfaces we've seen from mSpot and MP3tunes, the Amazon Cloud Player allows you to sort your collection by song, artist, album, or genre by selecting from the intuitive sorting options in the left column. A listing of uploaded playlists is also displayed below the main sorting options. We were happy to see that the Amazon uploader tool was able to digest our iTunes playlists, including Smart Playlists and Genius Playlists.

A big play/pause button and track skip, shuffle, loop, and volume controls are lined up across the bottom of the player, proving easy, friendly controls for playback.

To get your music back down from the cloud and onto a computer, you have two options. One way is to manually select any Cloud Drive file or folder and click the download button located above the file list. If the file you're downloading is music, you may be prompted to download Amazon's Adobe Air-based MP3 Downloader app, although you probably already have this if you've downloaded music from Amazon before.

The second way to retrieve your music is to set it up automatically under the Cloud Player's settings menu. Here you'll find a check box that will direct the MP3 Downloader tool to automatically download any new music in your Cloud Drive to your computer. The setting is computer-specific, so it's possible to set things so that only your home computer will download new Cloud Drive music, leaving your work computer uncluttered, for example. It's a useful feature, and we're glad to see that Amazon included it.

Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't handle other types of files as elegantly as music. When you back out of the Cloud Player into the general Cloud Drive browser, you'll find folders for documents, pictures, and videos, in addition to music. Non-music files must be selected and uploaded through a browser pop-up window, instead of using the more elegant and automatic MP3 Uploader tool. Once uploaded, your files are organized generically as a hierarchical tree of files and folders. You have the option to copy, move, download, and delete these files--but that's it.

There are no options to share content, and no pretty photo views, and video playback is handled by your browser. Common cloud backup features such as folder monitoring and background uploading are also absent. In short, Amazon has a ways to go before Cloud Drive is a full-featured online backup solution.

Why is this important?

First and foremost, Cloud Drive is a free method for consolidating music collections that have been strewn across multiple computers and devices. There are similar products out there, but Amazon's scale, the breadth of its storage plans, and the popularity of its MP3 store will make Cloud Drive the service to beat in the music space.

From an industry perspective, the introduction of Cloud Drive and its ties into the Amazon MP3 store amount to a big competitive advantage over other music download stores, most notably Apple's iTunes store. Amazon is effectively guaranteeing a backup of your MP3 purchases at no cost, which is a big incentive to go with Amazon over Apple.

What's missing?

As a music storage and management package, Amazon's Cloud Drive and Cloud Player combination is easy to use and easy to recommend. There are some holes in the music service, such as limited format support (strictly unprotected MP3 and AAC), the somewhat dry user interface, a reliance on the Adobe Air platform, and the lack of an iOS app. If and when Apple comes out with something similar, it will likely run within iTunes, dovetail with iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, and support Apple's lossless audio format.

The biggest disappointment is how Amazon handles storage of non-music files. There are dozens of services out there that are more adept at intelligently archiving and organizing photos, documents, and videos. The uptime reliability of Amazon's servers is nice, and the plan pricing is competitive, but services such as SugarSync and Dropbox are better tools when it comes to routinely backing up critical files and folders.

Final thoughts

For music fans, Amazon's Cloud Drive and Cloud Player get an unqualified thumbs-up from us. The price is right, the interface is simple, and if you're already a fan of Amazon and its MP3 store, then it's a slam dunk. If what you want to do is automatically back up files other than your music collection, there are better products and services for that out there.

Amazon. com Help: Download Photos and Videos Using a Web Browser

10 browsers are available at Amazon Appstore. They are all ideal for the operating system, and all give you a full Internet experience. Because Fire Fire owners will already know, you'll also need to use a browser if you want to access YouTube. Google no longer provides video service on the basic Fire TV system.

# 1 . Firefox for Fire TV

With Firefox for Fire TV you can Watch videos from popular sites or search the entire web. Use your Fire TV remote or app to play, pause, fast forward and rewind.

With this latest release, included a fresh new look to help you easily navigate the web on your Fire TV. No more typing in long URLs that you like to visit frequently. Users can now save their preferred websites by pinning them to the Firefox home screen. By using the menu button, you can easily remove any pinned websites at any time.

# 2 . Silk Browser

Silk for Fire TV lets you access limitless web content with a browser built for the big screen. Watch videos, listen to music, and view photos from your favorite sites. Use your voice and the Fire TV remote to search and navigate to websites. Easily control web videos and music with the Fire TV remote’s Play/Pause, Fast Forward, and Rewind buttons. Scroll web pages, select links, and keep track of page loading with a novel on-screen navigation cursor.

# 4 . Glance Browser

Glance Browser - A free browser, Built upon WebView, the same engine that powers Chrome, Glance provides a fast, free, and stable alternative to Amazon's Silk browser. With great performance, and an easy-to-use interface, Glance is a different type of browser.

# 5 . Internet Browser

Internet Browser is alightweight which provides you a fast and secure surfing experience. Freely download Quick Browser; try the best experience

# 6 . RM Web Browser

The web browser built from the ground to the top with something new and interesting to share. Get local news, weather, and more right from your "start screen". Delete what you don't use in your favorites from your start screen, and even access Help & Support right from there.

# 7 . Opera browser

Get the best browser for Android TV, the Vewd Browser looks great, loads pages super fast, and renders pages adapted to your TV, Organize your web: Speed Dial keeps the sites you love close at hand. Add your favorites simply by clicking the plus symbol or click the heart icon to add pages directly to Speed Dial while you browse.

Web Video Cast | Browser to TV/Chromecast/Roku/+

The description of Web V >Web Video Caster® allows you to watch on your TV videos from your favorite websites including movies, TV shows, live streams of news, sports, and IPTV. It also lets you cast local videos stored on your phone. Photos and audio files are also supported. Subtitles are detected on the web page, you can also use your own subtitles, or you can use the integrated search of OpenSubtitles. org.

SUPPORTED STREAMING DEVICES

Web Video Caster® supports the most popular streaming devices, allowing your TV to stream videos directly from the web.

• Chromecast.

• Roku.

• DLNA receivers.

• Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick.

• Smart TVs: LG Netcast and WebOS, Samsung, Sony, and others*.

• PlayStation 4 - by using its web browser.

• Most web browsers by visiting http://cast2tv. app (PS4, Smart TVs, other consoles and set top boxes).

• And more.

*If you experience compatibility issues, contact us and include the brand and model number.

SUPPORTED MEDIA

• HLS live streams in M3U8 format, where supported by your streaming device.

• Movies and TV shows.

• MP4 videos.

• Live news and sports.

• Any HTML5 videos*.

• IPTV (M3U8, W3U, RSS).

• Photos.

• Audio files including music.

*Your streaming device must be capable of decoding the video you are playing. Web Video Cast™ does not perform any video/audio decoding or transcoding.

GET STARTED

Follow these simple step-by-step instructions to start streaming:

1.- Browse the web or the local file explorer to find the video, audio or photo you want to cast to your tv.

2.- If the video or audio is on a website, try to play the video inside the web page. If it is a photo, you can long press on it to cast it.

3.- Connect to your streaming device to cast the video, music, or picture.

PREMIUM FEATURES**

• No in-app advertising.

• Bookmarks.

• Home page setting.

• Video history.

• Queue.

• Homescreen shortcut.

• Most visited site.

**This functionality does not apply universally to all streaming devices.

LIMITATIONS & DISCLOSURES

As with all apps, there are some limitations we are aware of and want you to know about up front.

• We are in no way associated with any web media providers and we do not have control over the content they provide.

• The app does not support tab casting, like the Chromecast extension for the PC web browser.

• We cannot do anything to fix issues that arise on the server side (media content provider) such as failure to play or buffering, which is especially common during heavy load times and weekends.

• Refunds are only issued within 24 hours of purchase and you must submit the order number in text, not a screenshot.