With Amazon Prime Instant Video service you can enjoy streaming of 5,000+ pieces of quality content, including some recent movies and a lot of TV shows, much of which will look very familiar if you’re also a Netflix subscriber. Learn how to unlock Amazon Prime from outside the US.
Much of this content is available to “rent” or “buy” if you want to be able to download it to a mobile device. Unlike Netflix, the new Amazon service plays nicely on Android devices.
Amazon Prime vs Netflix vs Hulu Plus
Clicker.com published a handy chart that compares all the online video sites and shows how the Amazon service is doing. It looks like an excellent start for Prime Instant Video:
How to unlock Amazon Prime Instant Video from outside the US
The same as for Hulu and Netflix, Prime Instant Video is not available for users outside the US. You can create an account, but when you try to play a video you get the following message:
We have detected that you are not located withing the US. Due to licensing restrictions Amazon Instant Video customers must be located in the United States when viewing videos online.
Amazon’s Prime Instant Video can be easily unlocked with the use of a VPN service that provides USA IP addresses. Here is a list of such services: List of VPN Services that Provide USA IP Addresses. I have successfully watched the Prime videos with HideMyAss, ibVPN, NordVPN, PrivateInternetAccess and PureVPN.
After you set up the VPN connection, just press the Retry button and you are good to go. No need to delete the cookies or to perform other fancy operations.
Enjoy!
P.S. I have not tested it yet with Hotspot Shield, but I’m almost sure it works.
Are you watching Amazon Prime? How do you unlock it? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Can I do it from my kindle fire?
Tried Hide My Ass – it says “your cookies are not enabled,” but they are. Never got it to work. The other two require subscription fees per month. You don’t really mention that in your article. I paid for amazon videos in the US but can’t watch them in the UK without paying even more.
I tried a lot to do this, also have the Hide my ass month suscription, but I still cannot acces the amazon instant video :-S
Doesn’t work with amazon instant BECAUSE it says quite clearly on Amazon instant website that you need BOTH a USA address and a USA credit card. So VPN is pointless
@Alberto –
on youre kindle fire you can use the application called World Wide KindleFire.
i am using it and just cant get my hands of the kindle!
you can allso do the same for Netflix content by using World Flix.
both are available at the market
I recently moved to Sweden (from US) and was annoyed to see unavailability of netfix, cbs / hulu
I was doomed. Tried different vpn services but was unable to get around the security. Then I came across unodns , a vpn service provided by unotelly. I was not so sure at first so I decide to use their free channels first. The streaming was awesome and the setup was plain easy. Try it and provide feedback.
Recently I left US and miss Netflix and Hulu, they dont offer the same anywhere in world like States. So I decided to choose a good vpn service. Tried most of the major services ( same like you explained above), and then one of my net friend told me about the back door access to a famous vpn service ( unotelly / unodns ) . I simply change my DNS settings with the below given address and refreshed. It works !!
Primary DNS to 23.21.182.24
Secondry DNS to 184.169.139.227
Try this and let me know if face any difficulty…Have Fun !!