Prime Video rolls out X-Ray Recaps feature
November 5, 2024
By Nik Roseveare
Prime Video has announced its new generative AI feature, X-Ray Recaps, which is powered by Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed AWS service for building and scaling generative AI applications with foundational models.
Using a combination of Amazon Bedrock models and custom AI models trained on Amazon SageMaker, X-Ray Recaps analyses various video segments, combined with subtitles or dialogue, to generate detailed descriptions of key events, places, times, and conversations. Guardrails are also applied to ensure spoiler-free summaries.
A Prime Video blog post explained: “With X-Ray Recaps, Prime Video is delivering a new way to get up to speed without wasting time or risking spoilers, allowing you to spend more time streaming your favourite TV shows. X-Ray Recaps is a generative AI-powered feature that creates brief, easy-to-digest summaries of full seasons of TV shows, single episodes, and even pieces of episodes, all personalised down to the exact minute of where you are watching. Whether you’re a few minutes into a new episode, halfway through a season, or took a break from watching a series and need a refresher, X-Ray Recaps delivers short textual snippets of key cliffhangers, character-driven plot points, and other details that can be accessed at any point in your viewing experience.”
X-Ray Recaps builds upon Prime Video’s existing X-Ray features, which help viewers dive deeper into what they’re watching by offering trivia and information about the cast, soundtrack, production details and more.
“Prime Video product and technology teams work relentlessly behind the scenes to enhance customers’ viewing experience, and with the creation of X-Ray Recaps, we’re directly addressing a common problem customers face when streaming content: forgetting where they left off,” commented Adam Gray, vice president of product at Prime Video. “With this context-aware functionality, Prime Video will deliver summaries of memorable moments and important plot points so our customers can quickly jump back into what they were watching or rediscover why they fell in love with a series in the first place.”
Viewers can find X-Ray Recaps at any time via the Prime Video detail page or during playback on the X-Ray experience. Once selected, they can choose from various types of recaps, including summaries of current episodes, the season so far, or the previous season.
X-Ray Recaps is currently in beta and will begin rolling out to Fire TV customers in the US effective immediately, with support for additional devices coming by the end of the year. At launch, subscribers can use X-Ray Recaps on all Amazon MGM Studios Original series such as Daisy Jones and the Six, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Wheel of Timeand The Boys.