Tuesday 4 February 2014

How to watch Amazon Prime Instant Video in Europe, on iPad or any other device

I've blogged recently a lot about how I fell in love with Netflix's service, and watching their US content despite living outside of the US. One of the issues with Netflix however is that they don't necessarily have *all* the most recent content. Amazon Instant Video is a nice alternative, as they offer more options for digital videos. Their prime service offers more or less the same content as Netflix, but you can also get "pay per view" videos even without being a prime subscriber; and, more importantly in my case, without living in the US.


Amazon do some basic geolocation checks to confirm that you are authorized to watch their US content. Of course, although Amazon Instant Video might make it to Europe eventually, their US site will probably always be the one with the most content.

There's basically two steps to be able to watch Amazon Instant Video in Europe (the following setup has been confirmed to work at least in France, Germany, Spain, the UK, and Italy by myself and friends).


The first step, which I won't describe too much,  consists in creating an "american" payment method on Amazon. This is done by changing your billing address to a random US address (google for samples) on the credit card that you register on Amazon. This step can be reverted at any time, and if you're not confident with this, an alternative is to buy yourself amazon gift cards and send them to yourself online. you'll then be able to use these gift cards to pay for Amazon Instant Videos.


Unblock Amazon Instant Video outside usa. Amazon Prime Instant Video is a subscription service offered by the world's biggest retailer of the same name. The Amazon Prime membership gives you  the access to a fast growing number of movies and tv shows for instant watch or on demand service.
With a catalogue of over 10,000 movies and TV-shows, it's increasingly becoming a viable alternative to Netflix.
However this amazing base is only available from the US. The blocking system is based on the IP source. Thankfully the restriction is quite easy to bypass.
Circumvent Amazon Instant Video geo-restriction
It consists of setting up a Virtual Private Network (VPN). This kind of application allows you to connect to a VPN server which provides a new IP, according to the server's location.

Once the connection is established you appear as a foreigner, your access to all geo-blocked websites is also granted.

How to Stream Movies from Amazon

The only problem is that you still can't stream the movies because Amazon can detect you are not located in the US.It consists of setting up a Virtual Private Network (VPN). This kind of application allows you to connect to a vpn accounts which provides a new IP, according to the server's location.Once the connection is established you appear as a foreigner, your access to all geo-blocked websites and Watch Amazon instant videos outside USA.

How to use VPN service to unblock Amazon Instant Video?

-Select a provider with US server location
-Download the software
-Switch your IP
-Connect to Amazon Instant Video

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