Amazon's First Thursday Night Football Broadcast Had Issues With Audio and Video
Amazon Prime's first Thursday Night Football broadcast did not go off without a hitch for some viewers. Audio and video were out of sync on the main feed for many people, including this author. It wasn't notable between plays, but during live action Al Michaels' call was a full second ahead of the action on the field, or worse.
Audio leading the video on our #Amazon stream by about 4-5 seconds. #NFL @PrimeVideo
— Daniel Jovic (@DanJovicNews) September 16, 2022
Anyone else’s Amazon audio ahead of the video?
— Clayton Sayfie (@CSayf23) September 16, 2022
Anyone else’s else audio out of sync on the Amazon broadcast?
— Gina Miller 😷 (@TheGinaMiller) September 16, 2022
Wondering if it’s me or…..🤷🏻♀️
Pausing and hitting play again fixed my audio issues, but people were also complaining about the volume of Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreit and the crowd.
Amazon Prime needs to improve the voice audio; you can barely hear the announcers over the crowd!#TNFonPrime
— Jeremy Burroughs (@jeremyburroughs) September 16, 2022
#TNFonPrime @amazon gotta bring the crowd and in stadium audio up a bit. Feels really quiet. Can’t hear the crowd and it feels like we’re in a closet with Al and Kirk
— Bransen Reynolds (@bransenr82) September 16, 2022
Amazon Prime gotta work on their audio for their commentators.
— Brandon Green (@brandongreen_15) September 16, 2022
The video did not receive rave reviews either.
Amazon Prime might wanna reconsider this Thursday Night Football thing. This is just making AWS look like crap. Horrible streaming quality and dropping audio on a very fast connection.
— Jonathan Badeen (@badeen) September 16, 2022
Every single feed of this game I see, from the one on Twitch to Amazon Prime to KTTV to KSHB, looks like garbage. If you were expecting pristine AppleTV+ level quality, you will be disappointed.
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) September 16, 2022
The DUDE PERFECT alternate feed looks like it's being streamed by a first-gen RAZR
it's just so macroblocky (this is the best looking of them, FWIW, KTTV) pic.twitter.com/CXcwqmZ5pt
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) September 16, 2022
Update: Here's what it looks like for some people.
this is what my prime video looks like lol pic.twitter.com/CCmlDfyfmP
— IKON Highlight Heaveñ (@highlghtheaven) September 16, 2022
So aside from the audio and video, Amazon's broadcast is off to a great start.