Inflation is going down, but the dollar just isn’t what it used to be. There are more bills to pay than ever, and the plethora of available streaming services doesn’t help the pocketbook. YouTube has some free movies, but in general, major streamers like Netflix and Apple TV+ require an ever-increasing fee to access their digital treasures.
Amazon, however, is a bit different. Yes, it costs money to subscribe to Prime Video, but the company also has another option that’s free. For consumers who don’t want to pay the Prime rate for movies and TV shows, it offers an alternative: Freevee, an ad-supported option that has a plethora of top-tier movies and shows. The current selection includes action movies like Kick-Ass 2 and Hoodlum, sci-fi adventures like Jurassic World with Chris Pratt, classic TV shows like Magnum P.I. and Miami Vice, modern TV series like The Originals, serious dramas like The Post with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, comedies like Pitch Perfect and Hot Fuzz, and thrillers like Widows with Viola Davis and Liam Neeson. Like any other streaming service, titles come and go, so keep reading to find out everything coming to Amazon Freevee in August 2023.
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972)
Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)
The Last House on the Left (1972)
Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008)
What’s the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
https://twitter.com/imagine/status/2113712964419063911
YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?