App Features: - Download videos to watch offline - anywhere, anytime. Rent or buy thousands of titles including new release movies, popular TV shows, and more (not available in all countries/regions). With Prime Video Channels, Prime members can subscribe to more than 150 premium and specialty channels like HBO, SHOWTIME, STARZ, and Cinemax. Click on the link below to download this professional Amazon Instant Video to Mac Downloader and get it installed on your computer. Step 2 Add Amazon Downloaded Videos Go to the folder where you have put the downloaded Amazon Instant Video files, select those you want to transfer onto a Mac, simply drag & drop them into the application. HOW TO DOWNLOAD AND SAVE AMAZON PRIME VIDEOS TO YOUR COMPUTER OR ANY DEVICE Download Amazon Prime videos such as Movies,Tv shows in your preferred device.

Can I buy a TV show from Amazon Instant Video and download it to my Mac? The FAQ file is very confusing. It makes it seem like if you want to watch from a computer, you must stream it. The only time it mentions downloading is for the Kindle Fire, a device that I do not have, and I don't have a need for it either.

All I want to do is buy the show from Amazon, and download the video files. From there, I can just open the video files and watch them. Is that supported? Also, are these files protected in some way? I have a video converter, and I would really like to convert them to MP4 so I can watch them on my iPod Touch.

Basically, Amazon explains pretty much anything you may want to understand. According to the help files on Amazon.com, this service (Downloading Amazon Instant Video) is only provided to Windows users. They make you download a special player to download the videos, and that player doesn't work on a Mac. So to speak, you cannot download Amazon Instant Video to Mac directly. Besides, Amazon bought files are DRM protected. However, you can still get Amazon purchased movies, TV shows onto a Mac for enjoying. Below is the step-by-step guide that walks you through the process on how to download & transfer files from Amazon Instant Video to a Mac. Keep reading.

Step 1 Install Amazon Converter for a Mac

Remember this has to be done on a Windows computer due to Amazon's limitations. A program is needed in order to convert Amazon Instant Video into Mac accepted files. Here we highly recommend DRM Media Converter which could do both Amazon DRM removing and video converting. For downloaded Amazon Instant Videos are in protected WMV format which will not be played on a Mac or any Apple devices. Click on the link below to download this professional Amazon Instant Video to Mac Downloader and get it installed on your computer.

Step 2 Add Amazon Downloaded Videos

Go to the folder where you have put the downloaded Amazon Instant Video files, select those you want to transfer onto a Mac, simply drag & drop them into the application. Or you may do this by clicking on 'Add' button on the program and follow up on-screen instructions. Below is the image on how the interface will look like with files imported:

Step 3 Select Mac Compatible Format

If you are thinking about downloading and converting Amazon Instant Videos to Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iTunes or QuickTime, you may want to choose MP4 format which works perfectly on Apple software/hardware. Here you may press on 'Video files to' button, move to 'Common Video' and there you can choose 'MP4' as the output format. Besides, you can use this Amazon Converter for Mac computer to convert any other DRM-ed files into any format you need.

Step 4 Convert Amazon Instant Videos to Mac

Here you may simply hit on 'Start' button and this smart software will now get started the Amazon videos to Mac supported files conversion task.

Then you may need to wait for a while till the process is finished. Once done, by clicking on 'Find Target' button you will reach the converted Amazon outputs which are now in Mac compatible MP4 format. Now you can freely download and transfer these Amazon Instant Videos to Mac or any Apple devices for playback. Have fun.

Amazon’s $99 per year Prime subscription includes a variety of digital services beyond free two-day shipping. One is its Prime Instant Video streaming video that, like Netflix, offers a selection of movies and TV shows. For a while now, and unlike Netflix, Amazon Prime customers have been able to download and watch videos offline — but only if they either had an Amazon Fire tablet or bought or rented a movie.

While Amazon’s free Prime Instant Video library is smaller than Netflix’s library, the former company had two big wins this week. First, it retained the license to the massive Epix video library that Netflix will lose at the end of the month. This includes relatively recent hit movies like Star Trek Into Darkness, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and The Wolf of Wall Street. Second, and more importantly, is that the company now lets you download some Prime Instant Video movies and TV shows for offline viewing on Google Android and Apple iOS phones and tablets.

I decided to give it a shot and see what happens. Here’s what I found after downloading and trying out the new Amazon Video app for Android on a Nexus 6 phone.

First, there doesn’t seem to be any visual cues on the Amazon app’s home screen to identify which Prime Instant Video movies or TV series are available for downloads. However, the videos I picked were all available for free download.

Next, I took a look at the app’s settings. The first thing I did was to select “Wi-Fi Only” to prevent accidentally burning up my cellular data. Next, I selected the SD (Standard Definition) Download Quality to reduce the size of the downloaded file.

If a video is available for free download, you’ll see a “Download” button under the the green “Watch Now” button. The video can be started and played before the download is actually complete. Once the video download finished, I set my phone to airplane mode (all radios turned off) to test offline viewing. The app showed me what you see in the above screenshot, letting me know that I had 76 days to view the movie while offline. And this shot clock doesn’t start ticking until a video is actually started in offline mode.

While I guess that the offline period depends on what kind of license is attached to a video, even seven days should be enough for most business and vacation trips that may include disconnected times while in a plane, train, or bus. Plus, this clock is turned off once connection to the Internet is reestablished.

The particular movie I downloaded to test was 1 hour 50 minutes long. The Standard Definition version clocked in at 606 MB, and later can be deleted from within the app to free up space. Expect an HD video of the same length to be much larger than this.

All told, the movie played back as intended. I did find TV shows have a slightly different visual interface. Each episode has a download icon (a downward-pointing arrow) to indicate episodes available for offline viewing.

So far, Netflix has not responded to Amazon’s offering of a long-desired feature to be able to download thousands of videos from a fixed price library. It may feel its prime-time traffic dominance can let it ignore this latest development. Earlier this year, Sandvine reported Netflix accounted for 36.5% of peak evening hours North American Internet traffic. Amazon and Hulu accounted for 1.97% and 1.91% of the traffic, respectively, by comparison.

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If Amazon’s new feature attracts enough of its customers (like me) to take a closer look at its library, Netflix, with its soon-to-be-reduced movie content, may suddenly feel more pressure as customers turn to Amazon and other streaming video service providers in increasing numbers.