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Online retail giant Amazon is said to be stretching the truth regarding the size of its streaming content library when reporting numbers to the public. According to a report from <em>Fast Company</em>, the “17,000 movies and television shows” Amazon claims to offer <a href="http://www.bgr.com/tag/amazon-prime/">Amazon Prime</a> customers is inflated by roughly 10 times. Amazon Prime members have free, unlimited access to Amazon’s streaming content catalog, which can be viewed using a number of devices including a Roku set-top box and Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet. Rather than counting a TV series toward the total content tally Amazon claims its users have access to, Amazon counts each individual episode of a TV show toward that 17,000-title total. So, for example, Fox’s “24″ counts not once but 192 times, and various versions of the “Power Rangers” show add 715 <em>shows</em> to Amazon’s catalog. The actual size of Amazon’s library? 1,745 movies and 150 television series. Netflix, which has been said to have a catalog of 60,000 streaming titles, actually has approximately 13,000 different titles including 9,500 movies and 3,500 TV series, the report claims.
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<em>Updated to clarify that Netflix does not publish the number of titles available in its streaming catalog.</em>
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Online retail giant Amazon is said to be stretching the truth regarding the size of its streaming content library when reporting numbers to the public. According to a report from <em>Fast Company</em>, the “17,000 movies and television shows” Amazon claims to offer <a href="http://www.bgr.com/tag/amazon-prime/">Amazon Prime</a> customers is inflated by roughly 10 times. Amazon Prime members have free, unlimited access to Amazon’s streaming content catalog, which can be viewed using a number of devices including a Roku set-top box and Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet. Rather than counting a TV series toward the total content tally Amazon claims its users have access to, Amazon counts each individual episode of a TV show toward that 17,000-title total. So, for example, Fox’s “24″ counts not once but 192 times, and various versions of the “Power Rangers” show add 715 <em>shows</em> to Amazon’s catalog. The actual size of Amazon’s library? 1,745 movies and 150 television series. Netflix, which has been said to have a catalog of 60,000 streaming titles, actually has approximately 13,000 different titles including 9,500 movies and 3,500 TV series, the report claims.
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<em>Updated to clarify that Netflix does not publish the number of titles available in its streaming catalog.</em>
<a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/1830524/the-juiced-misleading-sizes-of-netflix-and-amazon-streaming-libraries">Read</a>
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