Your Kindle Fire HD can play movies. Furthermore, you don't need an Internet connection to watch them; you can transfer the movies from your computer and watch them offline whenever you wish. The Kindle tablet can play MP4, 3GP and VP8 videos; other formats are not supported. How to Watch Any Movie and TV Show on Kindle Fire for Free. Posted on Apr 4, 2017| 1 comment To watch movie or TV show on Kindle Fire, I always use Amazon Video and Netflix app. Yesterday I found an app which provides tons of movies and TV episodes, what’s more, all of them can be streamed for free.
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.
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.
1 commentTo watch movie or TV show on Kindle Fire, I always use Amazon Video and Netflix app. Yesterday I found an app which provides tons of movies and TV episodes, what’s more, all of them can be streamed for free.
The app is called Terrarium. It is an Android app to download free movies and TV series, if work with MX Player, you can even stream those videos for free. At the moment, this app is compatible with cellphone, tablet and chromecast.
Here is a simple walkthrough.
Install MX Player
You can install MX player from these sources:
- Amazon Appstore
- Google Play
How To Download Videos To Kindle
No matter you are using Kindle Fire or a normal Android device, you can get MX Player app from the links above.
Install Terrarium
Because of the copyright issue, Terrarium is not available in any appstore, you can only download the .apk file from its official website.
Download latest Terrarium .apk file
If you don’t know how to install an app from .apk file on Kindle Fire, please read this guide.
Use Terrarium to watch movies and TV shows for free
After installing MX Player and Terrarium, launch Terrarium, you will see the home screen like this.
The home screen displays the trending videos, which are all hot TV series. There is an ad at the bottom bar, you can pay to Terrarium’s developer to remove the ad.
I tapped on “The Walking Dead”, which is my favorite TV series these years. The details page looks good.
There are three tabs in the details page: Overview, Season, See also. To watch the video, you need to switch to “Season”. All seasons are listed one by one, the latest season of The Walking Dead is season 7, it’s at the last of the list.
Entering the season details page, we will see the episodes list.
All episodes of this season are listed in horizon way at the top, each episode is a single tab. “Play” button lays at the right bottom corner, it is a bit far away from the episode description. I think it’s due to Kindle Fire’s screen size.
Click the “Play” button, you would get a list of all available resources.
You can easily figure out the video resolution and file size from the list, just pick the one you like and tap on it, then choose how you’d like to deal with it: stream or download.
The options are rich and useful, you can simply play the video or play with subtitle. If you want to watch it later, you can download the video at first.
Terrarium can’t play the video itself, all videos must be played with MX Player. Like the screenshot below.
The Bottom Line
If you are looking for a free trick to watch movies and TV series, Terrarium can be a good choice for you. After testing this app for hours, the only flaw is the ads. If you enjoy this app, I would recommend you pay to remove ads.
Download Movies Onto Kindle Fire
You also need to be aware of the piracy problem, if you do not know how to be anonymous on the internet, or never do this before, please be careful.