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  • Amazon Begins HDR Streaming for Prime Members

    Amazon Begins HDR Streaming for Prime Members

    Amazon has announced that it’s going to start streaming some shows in High Dynamic Range (HDR), just as it promised earlier this year.

    HDR basically improves image quality by enhancing shadows and highlights and brightening colors. With HDR, Amazon’s streaming video will appear more lifelike.

    This sounds nice, obviously, but there’s one catch to this – it’s very, very limited at this point.

    Amazon is only enabling HDR streams for one of its original series – Mozart in the Jungle. And it’s only for Prime members in the US, and it’s only compatible with one device as of now – Samsung SUHD TVs.

    “HDR is a technical innovation that provides a truly stunning viewing experience and we’re thrilled to be the first to offer this unmatched picture quality,” said Michael Paull, Vice President of Digital Video at Amazon. “We can’t wait for our Prime members to watch and re-watch Mozart in the Jungle in HDR at no additional cost to their membership, and we look forward to adding more titles and devices that support HDR this year.”

    Of course, Amazon says that this is just the beginning and that there will be “more ways to watch soon.”

    Amazon is the first to offer HDR streaming, but it won’t be the last. Netflix is also rolling it out soon – and it feels that HDR is way more important to your viewing experience than other quality boosts like 4K resolution.

  • Mozart in the Jungle Hits Amazon December 23

    Mozart in the Jungle Hits Amazon December 23

    Amazon Studios’ new comedy show, Mozart in the Jungle, has just received an official premiere date – December 23.

    Amazon will release all 10 episodes of the first season at once on Amazon Prime. Mozart in the Jungle was first greenlit alongside Amazon’s Transparent – which has received rave reviews since its premiere in September.

    Mozart in the Jungle stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Saffron Burrows, Hannah Dunne, Lola Kirke, and Peter Vack. It’s executive producers are Roman Coppola. Jason Schwartzman, Paul Weitz, and John Strauss. The show also boasts a bunch of guest stars including Malcolm McDowell, Bernadette Peters, Debra Monk, Wallace Shawn, and John Hodgman.

    Here’s Amazon’s official description:

    Based on the critically acclaimed memoir Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs & Classical Music by Blair Tindall, Mozart in the Jungle is seen through the eyes of a young oboist, Hailey (Kirke), who tries to navigate through the egos and eccentricities of a world renowned orchestra, and new conductor Rodrigo (Bernal), an enfant terrible whose passion for music threatens the plans of the orchestra’s old guard. That old guard is represented by Thomas (McDowell), the reluctantly outgoing conductor, and Gloria (Peters), the chairwoman of the board, who wonder what they have wrought by bringing Rodrigo into the fold. The musicians themselves, a colorful family of disparate personalities, are struggling to deal with this new regime. Along with her friends Alex (played by Vack), a dancer on the brink of success, Cynthia (Burrows), a worldly cellist, and Lizzie (played by Dunne), a world class partier, Hailey searches for what it means to dedicate your life to music.

    “Our customers will be immersed in a provocative and compelling world,” said Roy Price, Vice President of Amazon Studios. “Jason, Roman, Paul and John have brilliantly tapped into this microcosm brought to life by an unparalleled ensemble cast.”

    Last week, Amazon announced the first set of pilots for 2015 – for hour-long shows, two half-hour shows, and a docu-series.

    Image via Amazon Studios, YouTube