Amazon Prime Adds Watch Party for Co-Viewing With Up to 100 Friends

Amazon ’s cyclosis service is introducing a co - viewing option to pullulate movies and idiot box shows with up to 100 other Prime Video account holder , a nifty feature of speech that ’s already formally available on platforms likeHuluandHBO .

The native tool is now usable to Prime Video reader in the U.S. streaming via a desktop web browser — an exception being Safari ( other platforms and apps are n’t currently supported ) . An Amazon spokesperson evidence Gizmodo by email that user will now be able to simultaneously pullulate thousands of titles in its catalog , including Amazon originals as well as title like Captain America : The First Avenger and Knives Out .

Like otherco - viewing apps , Amazon ’s Watch Party include a chat elbow room dick to allow view participants to chat while pour their show or picture . Users can easily add participants — though again , you have to have a Prime report — by sharing a unique link to their co - viewing room .

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To start a academic session , click the Watch Party icon on a claim ’s landing page ( you ’ll find it to the right of the Trailer and Watchlist clit ) . You ’ll be able to introduce a schmoose name on the following cover to let folks know who you are , which will make out in handy if you ’re streaming with anything close to the utterly dull cap of 100 other viewers . Then , share the liaison and pop out the title . Everyone will see the same film or series in sync in material - time .

And that ’s it . No more hunt for third - party host apps , and no more attempt to smash up that “ play ” button at the same prison term as your quarantined fuck single . Thank god . We ’re all just doing our best right now .

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