Prime Video announced its newest feature: X-Ray Recaps. The popular streaming service says this new feature will help customers conveniently catch up on their favorite TV shows.
X-Ray Recaps is a Generative AI-powered feature that creates brief, easy-to-digest summaries of full TV show seasons, single episodes, or even pieces of episodes, all personalized down to the exact minute of where viewers are watching. Whether someone is a few minutes into a new episode, halfway through a season, or if someone 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 Prime Video explains.
“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,” says 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.”
X-Ray Recaps is powered by Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed AWS service for building and scaling generative AI applications with foundational models. Utilizing a combination of Amazon Bedrock models and custom AI models trained on Amazon SageMaker, X-Ray Recaps analyzes 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 the generation of spoiler-free and concise summaries.
The streaming service points out that homeowners can launch X-Ray Recaps at any time from the Prime Video detail page or during playback on the X-Ray experience. Once selected, users can choose from various types of recaps, including summaries of current episodes, the season so far, or the previous season.
Prime Video adds that its new viewer enhancement option is now in beta and will begin to be available to Fire TV customers in the U.S. starting immediately, with support for additional devices coming by the end of the year. At launch, customers can use X-Ray Recaps on all Amazon MGM Studios Original series like Daisy Jones and the Six, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Wheel of Time and The Boys.
