Thursday, July 19, 2012  DroidTV Primetime app for KindleFire
gets a price rise - is it still worth it?  DroiodTV Primetime is
an Android app for Kindle Fire with not-clear pricing and a
recent additional price-increase but said to be worth it  Amazon
has not highlighted DroidTV Primetime but it is pretty big on
Android sites when software is recommended.  It may be that it's
a soft competitor to HuluPlus especially and to Netflix also.
While DroidTV Primetime is listed for $8.99, a price already
high enough to deter purchase by most who prefer free or very
inexpensive apps, it's actually $8.99 for 3 months now.  It's
essentially a subscription of course, but it doesn't clearly say
so.    Furthermore, the history is that it started out as $1/mo.
not long ago and then recently had become $8.99 for 6 months,
which seemed okay for those who had signed up for it, at $1.50
per month then.    In July, the price quietly changed, from
$8.99 for 6 months, to $8.99 for 3 months.   And nevertheless,
people on the whole