First, the part most guides get wrong: Prime Video works normally in the Netherlands. You are not locked out of anything. If a page has promised to “unblock Prime Video” for you, it is selling a fix for a problem you do not have.
What differs is the catalogue — Prime Video swaps libraries by territory and the American one is the largest. Most of that is unlistable, because titles move monthly. One gap is not: Amazon's own NBA announcement names Greater China, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands as excluded from its international packages, while Mexico, Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, the UK and Ireland all get expanded coverage.
Prime Video picks your storefront from the country it detects, and a residential U.S. IP is what presents a U.S. one. The rest of this page is spent on the limits — it does not unlock Channels, it does not touch your Amazon account, and it does nothing whatever about the IPv6 problem that makes Dutch connections fail without telling you.
Start with the thing most guides bury: Prime Video operates normally in the Netherlands. Nobody is locked out. If you have been sent here by a page promising to “unblock Prime Video in the Netherlands”, that page is solving a problem you do not have.
The real question is narrower and more useful. Prime Video swaps catalogues by territory, and the American one is the largest. Individual titles move in and out of it constantly, which is why we are not going to publish a list — it would be wrong within a month and you would have no way of knowing.
There is one gap, though, that is not a matter of timing and not a matter of opinion, because Amazon wrote it down.
Amazon's own announcement of its 11-year NBA deal names the countries excluded from the international packages, and the Netherlands is on that list. This is not a title that might arrive later. It is the shape of the rights agreement.
The US library is bigger and the licences differ country by country. That is true and it is why people do this — but any specific list we printed would go stale, so we would rather tell you the mechanism than hand you a table that lies to you in six weeks.
The add-on subscriptions inside Prime Video are home-country subscriptions. Amazon says a network change does not make them available abroad, so this gap stays a gap no matter what address you present.
Amazon's 11-year agreement with the NBA and WNBA began with the 2025-26 season. In the United States it carries 66 regular-season games a year, plus opening-week doubleheaders, Black Friday games and playoff coverage.
Internationally it is deliberately uneven, and the announcement is unusually specific about where. Expanded packages — at least 20 extra primetime games a year plus Conference Finals and Finals — go to Mexico, Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, the UK and Ireland. Canada joins from 2026-27.
The international rights exclude Greater China, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands. The Netherlands is in that sentence. So is the whole Nordic bloc, and Poland, and Greater China — but not a single one of the large markets on the Dutch border.
| Market | NBA on Prime Video | What that means for a Dutch viewer |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 66 regular-season games a year, plus playoffs | This is what a U.S. storefront carries |
| Germany, France, UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain | Expanded package — 20+ primetime games, Conference Finals, Finals | Every large neighbour is included |
| Netherlands | Excluded by name | Not a timing gap and not a catalogue quirk |
| Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland | Excluded by name | The Nordic bloc was carved out together |
| Poland, Greater China | Excluded by name | The rest of the exclusion list |
| Canada | Joins from the 2026-27 season | Being excluded is not always permanent |
We are leaning on this one fact rather than a long list of missing films because it is the rare claim in this business that you can verify for yourself in one click. Amazon's announcement is linked at the bottom of the page. Everything else about catalogue differences is true in general and unprovable in particular, and we would rather be straight about which is which.
It is tempting to imagine Prime Video as a single door with a single lock. It is three mechanisms stacked together, answering to completely different inputs, and only the first one is about your network at all.
Sorting your problem into the right layer before you spend money is the most useful thing on this page.
| Layer | What it controls | Does a US IP move it? |
|---|---|---|
| The catalogue you are served | Which titles are “included with Prime” for you — Prime Video swaps catalogues by territory and decides from the country it detects | Yes. This is the layer a residential U.S. IP moves, and for the US library it is the whole job |
| Channels — the add-on subscriptions inside Prime Video | Paramount+, Max, Starz and the rest, bought through Prime Video | No. Amazon treats these as home-country subscriptions and says a network change does not make them available abroad. USip does not supply them |
| Your Amazon account itself | Marketplace, billing address, Prime membership country | No. None of it is set by your network, and changing your address has consequences well beyond Prime Video |
If you came here for a Channel — Paramount+ or Max bought through Prime Video — stop at the middle row. Amazon ties those to your home country and states that a network change does not make them available abroad. There is no address that fixes it, and anybody telling you otherwise is selling something.
The Netherlands has one of the highest IPv6 deployment rates in Europe. Excellent for almost everything, and a genuine nuisance for exactly this.
A dual-stack connection gives your browser two routes to any site. When a site publishes both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address, IPv6 generally wins. If the tunnel you brought up carries only IPv4, that request goes out over your real Dutch connection — with no error, no warning and nothing in the client to suggest anything happened.
This is why the advice that works for a reader elsewhere can fail here unchanged, and why it presents as “it just does not work for me” rather than as a diagnosable fault. Rule it out before you conclude anything about the address itself.
The client says connected. The flag is American. Prime Video still shows euros and the Dutch row of included titles. Nothing anywhere reports a problem, because from the network's point of view there was not one.
Load one that shows IPv4 and IPv6 on separate lines, in the same browser profile you will use for Prime Video. United States on the v4 line and a Dutch address on the v6 line is the entire diagnosis. Single-result checkers hide it.
Turn it off on the network adapter, or confirm your client blocks it, then test again. Do this on one computer rather than at the router while you are still working out what is wrong — the router moves every device in the house at once.
Worth doing before you judge the connection at all. We have seen readers conclude an address was blocked when it had simply never been used: every request they made had quietly gone out over IPv6 instead.
USip supplies a residential U.S. IP connection. That is the whole product. It presents a U.S. location, and Prime Video's storefront decision reads that location — which is what puts the U.S. catalogue, and the sports rights attached to that storefront, in front of you.
It is not an Amazon Prime membership, not a Prime Video subscription, not a Channels subscription, and not a change to your Amazon account. It is also not a guarantee: Amazon can block any address at any time, including this one, and its terms are its own.
And on a Dutch line specifically, it does nothing about IPv6 unless you close that path yourself. That is the section above, and it comes before this one for a reason.
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Order matters more than any individual step. Two of these five are about IPv6, which is the one thing a Dutch reader has to handle that most guides never mention.
These are different problems with the same fix and very different odds. A title missing from the Dutch catalogue may simply arrive later. The NBA is not a timing question — Amazon's international rights exclude the Netherlands outright, so it is not coming to Prime Video here at all.
This is the step Dutch readers need and most guides omit. The Netherlands has one of the highest IPv6 deployment rates in Europe, so your line is almost certainly dual-stack. When a site publishes both addresses the browser generally prefers IPv6 — and if your tunnel only carries IPv4, that request leaves from your real Dutch address with no warning and no error.
A single-line checker will cheerfully tell you everything is fine while the leak is wide open. Use one that shows IPv4 and IPv6 separately, in the same browser profile you are about to test with. United States on the v4 line and a Dutch address on the v6 line is the whole diagnosis.
Check the storefront before you check a title: U.S. pricing in dollars, the U.S. row of “included with Prime”. That tells you the location signal took. Chasing one film first leaves you unable to tell a storefront problem from a rights problem for that film.
A Dutch storefront means the location signal did not take — usually IPv6. A U.S. storefront that will not sell you a subscription is your Amazon account, not your network. A Channel you cannot buy is Amazon's home-country rule and no address changes it. Three unrelated causes that feel identical.
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Start on a computer, where the connection, the public address and the storefront are all visible at once — and where IPv6 is adjustable. A phone hides the address; a television hides the address and adds its own device registration. Each video below is the USip setup walkthrough for that platform.
A Windows browser isolates the connection, the public address and the storefront in one place, and the adapter properties are where you disable IPv6 for the test. Confirm a dual-stack checker reports United States with no Dutch v6 address, then open Prime Video in a private window.
Step by step: the Prime Video setup page for Windows, or the general open the windows guide.
iCloud Private Relay sends Safari through Apple's own network, bypassing your connection entirely — a correctly configured Mac can fail for that reason alone. Switch it off first. IPv6 is set per-service in Network settings, under the same advanced panel.
Step by step: the Prime Video setup page for macOS, or the general open the mac guide.
If Prime Video shows a U.S. storefront on the carrier connection and a Dutch one on home Wi-Fi, you have found the IPv6 leak rather than a blocked address — the two networks behave differently. Turn Private Relay off and test in a private tab.
Step by step: the Prime Video setup page for iPhone and iPad, or the general open the ios guide.
Exempt the VPN client from battery optimisation: Android kills background processes aggressively, and a tunnel dropped mid-episode looks exactly like a block. Android's per-network IPv6 handling is less adjustable than a desktop's, so prove it on a computer first.
Step by step: the Prime Video setup page for Android, or the general open the android guide.
A Fire TV is registered to an Amazon marketplace at the device level, independently of anything your network does. Smart TV and console apps carry their own store regions. None of that is a network setting, so settle the browser first and treat the television as a separate job.
If a browser shows a U.S. storefront and a TV app on the same network still shows the Dutch one, that is device registration or stored app state — not your address. Reconnecting will not touch it.
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One residential U.S. IP — a consumer address on a U.S. ISP rather than a datacentre range. USip and Amazon are separate services, and the plans below include the connection only. They do not include an Amazon Prime membership, a Prime Video subscription, a Prime Video Channels subscription, a payment method, your Amazon marketplace or account, or rights to any title or event.
Separate services: these prices cover the USip VPN residential U.S. IP connection only. An Amazon Prime membership, a Prime Video subscription, Prime Video Channels subscriptions, your Amazon marketplace and account, billing acceptance and content availability are not included. A U.S. IP changes which catalogue Prime Video serves you and nothing beyond that.
Reaching the U.S. storefront is the start of a purchase, not the end of one. These are Amazon's U.S. prices, taken from Amazon's own newsroom rather than from an aggregator, so the whole bill is visible before you decide.
The Ultra row is the one that confuses people: it costs less than the base tier because it is not one. It layers on top of Prime or Prime Video and cannot be bought by itself.
| Plan | US price | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Prime | $14.99/month or $139/year | The full membership — Prime Video plus shipping and everything else |
| Prime Video only | $8.99/month | Prime Video without the rest of the membership |
| Prime Video Ultra | $4.99/month or $45.99/year | Ad-free, 5 concurrent streams instead of 4, 100 downloads instead of 50, 4K/UHD and Dolby Atmos. Requires Prime or Prime Video — it sits on top, which is why it costs less than the base tier |
One asymmetry to plan around: PayPal is one of the ways you can pay us, but Amazon does not accept PayPal for Prime or Prime Video. Solving the payment question on our side does not solve it on theirs.
Answered from Amazon's own announcements and published prices — including the first one, where the honest answer is that Prime Video is not blocked here at all.
Yes, and that is worth saying plainly because it makes this page different from most of our guides. Prime Video operates here normally. The question is not access — it is what the Dutch catalogue carries compared with the American one.
The honest general answer is that Prime Video swaps catalogues by territory and the US library is the largest, so specific titles differ constantly and any list we published would be stale within a month. The specific, checkable answer is the NBA — see the next question.
No. Amazon's own announcement of its 11-year NBA and WNBA deal, which began with the 2025-26 season, states that the international rights exclude Greater China, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands. The Netherlands is named in that list. This is not a catalogue quirk that might change next month — it is the shape of the rights deal.
The US package is 66 regular-season games a year. Expanded international packages — a minimum of 20 extra primetime games plus Conference Finals and Finals — go to Mexico, Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, the UK and Ireland, with Canada joining from 2026-27. So a Dutch viewer is excluded while every large neighbouring market is included, which is exactly why this page exists.
Yes. Prime Video streams 30 WNBA regular-season games a season from 2026, described as worldwide, but the same geographic exclusions apply. If you are in the Netherlands, the exclusion list covers both.
For the library, and only the library. Prime Video reads the country it detects and serves the matching storefront, so a U.S. location is what gets you the American catalogue instead of the Dutch one. That is the mechanism and it is the whole of our claim — we are not telling you that anything which is broken gets fixed, because nothing here is broken.
We do not know, and we are not going to guess in the direction that suits us. The exclusion is Amazon's own published wording and we have quoted it exactly. What we have not been able to verify is whether live games follow a U.S. storefront for someone watching from the Netherlands — live sport is frequently checked more strictly than a catalogue is. Treat the basketball as unproven, use the trial to test it, and do not let it be the reason you subscribe.
No. Channels are the add-on subscriptions you buy inside Prime Video — Paramount+, Max, Starz and the rest — and Amazon treats them as home-country subscriptions. Amazon's position is that changing your network does not make them available abroad. If a Channel is why you are here, a U.S. address is not the answer.
No. Those are account settings, not network facts. Your marketplace, billing address and membership country stay where they are, and moving an Amazon address has consequences across orders, shipping and payment — well beyond Prime Video. Treat it as a deliberate decision, not a step in a test.
On a Dutch line, suspect IPv6 first. Deployment here is among the highest in Europe, so your connection is very likely dual-stack. If a site publishes both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address the browser usually prefers IPv6, and if your tunnel carries only IPv4 that request goes out from your real address silently. Disable IPv6 on the adapter and test again.
Use a public-IP checker that reports IPv4 and IPv6 on separate lines, in the same browser profile you will test Prime Video with. United States on one line and a Dutch address on the other is your answer. Checkers that show a single result will hide the problem completely.
Two reasons, and on a Dutch line the second one matters more. First, the address itself: a commercial endpoint sits in a datacentre range shared with thousands of other subscribers, and it is judged on their collective history; a home line carries the profile of one household. Second, and more practically here — a tunnel that only carries IPv4 leaves your real IPv6 address exposed on a dual-stack Dutch connection, which is the failure described further up this page. A better address does not save you from that. Neither point is a guarantee: Amazon can block anything.
Two separate bills. Amazon's side: $14.99 a month or $139 a year for Prime, $8.99 a month for Prime Video by itself, and $4.99 a month or $45.99 a year for Ultra, which sits on top of one of the other two and is therefore cheaper than the tier beneath it. Those figures come from Amazon's own newsroom rather than a comparison site. Our side is billed separately, and nothing you pay us goes to Amazon.
No — Amazon does not accept PayPal for Prime or Prime Video. PayPal is one of the ways you can pay USip, so it solves the payment question on our side and not on Amazon's. Worth knowing before you plan around it.
Easily, and there is a two-minute test that settles it. Run the identical setup on a phone's mobile hotspot. If it works there and fails on the building's network, the building is the variable — managed networks close the ports tunnels rely on and hand out their own DNS resolver — and no amount of reconfiguring the laptop will move it. Worth doing before the IPv6 check, because it is faster and rules out more.
Using a VPN is lawful — they are everyday business and privacy tools and Dutch law treats them as such. The real exposure is contractual, not criminal: Amazon's terms set out how it may treat an address it does not like, and in practice the consequence of a mismatch is that the address stops working. That is a commercial risk you are choosing to take, not a legal one you are running. We are not lawyers and none of this is legal advice.
Three of these four countries are in the same NBA exclusion list. The fourth is the one place where Prime Video genuinely is not available at all.
Every figure and exclusion above comes from one of these, and the NBA list is quoted from Amazon's own announcement rather than paraphrased from a news write-up.
Prime Video is not blocked in the Netherlands and we are not going to pretend it is. If what you watch is in the Dutch library, you need nothing from us, and that is a perfectly good outcome.
If you want the U.S. catalogue, a residential U.S. IP presents the location Prime Video's storefront decision reads, and that is what changes the library you are served. On the NBA we will claim only what we checked: the exclusion list is Amazon's own wording, but we have not verified that live games follow a U.S. storefront from abroad, and live sport is routinely enforced more tightly than a catalogue — so if the basketball is your only reason, prove it inside the trial before you commit to anything. Close the IPv6 path first, understand that none of this moves Channels or your Amazon account, and know that Amazon can block any address.
USip supplies the residential U.S. IP connection only. Prime Video, Amazon Prime membership, Channels subscriptions, your Amazon marketplace and content rights belong to Amazon, and Amazon can block any address.