Prime Video uses AI recaps to help you catch up on shows

Have you ever waited too long for the next season of a TV show and forgotten crucial plot lines when it premieres? Soon, you’ll no longer need to head over to YouTube for a quick refresher. Prime Video has come up with a new feature called X-Ray Recaps.

This AI-powered feature is said to provide a new way to get you up to speed without wasting time or risking spoilers. Here’s everything to know about the AI-generated recaps.

Prime Video X-Ray Recaps: How does it work

The X-Ray Recaps can help viewers who forgot plot details or missed crucial moments while watching a series. It can provide brief summaries of full seasons, individual episodes, or even specific segments without leaving the streaming platform.

This feature can bring users up to speed without having to rewind or search online for information. It analyses various video segments combined with subtitles or dialogues to generate detailed descriptions of key events, places, times, and conversations. It can also be used to give viewers personalised summaries of their favourite TV shows.

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In case you are in between episodes, X-Ray Recaps can deliver a summary till that moment to save time, avoid sharing spoilers and improve your streaming experience. With this context-aware functionality, Prime Video can recap memorable moments and important plot lines to allows viewers to jump back into the show from where they left off.

How to access X-Ray Recaps

X-Ray recaps will be accessible from the Details page of a show or in X-Ray section while you are watching something. It can be easily accessed by tapping on your smartphone app or using the play or pause on laptops and TVs.

Essentially, it builds on the existing X-Ray feature that provides additional information about the show or movie like trivia, cast details, soundtrack information, and production insights.

It is worth noting that X-Ray Recaps is still in Beta and is only available on Fire TV devices in the US for now. It will extend to additional devices by the end of the year. To begin with, it will work only on ‘Original Series’ created by the network including Daisy Jones and the Six, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Wheel of Time, The Boys, and Upload.

While you wait for the feature, you can check out upcoming releases in November that you can binge on.