Recapping your favorite shows just became simpler with X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video. The recaps are Generative-AI powered easy-to-digest summaries of full TV show seasons, single episodes, or even pieces of episodes.
With X-Ray Recaps, Prime Video has strengthened X-Ray’s features to give viewers a better experience. Viewers can find trivia, soundtrack information, details, and information about the cast while watching their favorite shows and movies.
“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,” said 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.”
Here’s how Prime Video says the X-Ray Recaps feature will work:
How it works
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.
How to find X-Ray Recaps
You can launch X-Ray Recaps at any time from the Prime Video detail page or during playback on the X-Ray experience. Once selected, you can choose from various types of recaps, including summaries of current episodes, the season so far, or the previous season.
Availability
X-Ray Recaps is now in beta and will begin to be available to Fire TV customers in the U.S. starting today, 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 & the Six, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Wheel of Time and The Boys.