Has anyone seen the new Amazon Watchlist show up on their play device menu? I have a Panasonic DMP-BDT200 with the latest firmware and the Watchlist does not show on the Amazon app. The Amazon app says it’s a March 2012 vintage, may be it will be updated soon.
My Roku and PS3 both have the watchlist but my LG Blu-ray player doesn't.
It's a matter of Amazon getting a new app customized for each hardware platform - and usually standalone Blu-ray players are at the end of the waiting line, with priority being given to the PlayStation and the Roku, each of which have much larger installed bases than most disk players.
More than 45% of users connect their TVs to the Internet via multiple devices, and 55% use a standalone game console, Blu-ray Disc player (34%), smart TV (28%), or media player/set-top box (25%).
Amazon signs deal with EPIX which adds movies from Paramount Pictures, MGM, and Lionsgate.
Enjoy The Hunger Games, The Avengers, Thor, Iron Man 2, and Captain America: The First Avenger, plus recent hits such as Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Warrior, Super 8, True Grit, and Rango.
In all, 2,000 movies from EPIX will be coming to Prime Instant Video this year.
Amazon signs deal with EPIX which adds movies from Paramount Pictures, MGM, and Lionsgate.
Enjoy The Hunger Games, The Avengers, Thor, Iron Man 2, and Captain America: The First Avenger, plus recent hits such as Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Warrior, Super 8, True Grit, and Rango.
In all, 2,000 movies from EPIX will be coming to Prime Instant Video this year.
This is pretty awesome, I am enjoying Amazon Instant Video more all the time.
Amazon signs deal with EPIX which adds movies from Paramount Pictures, MGM, and Lionsgate.
Enjoy The Hunger Games, The Avengers, Thor, Iron Man 2, and Captain America: The First Avenger, plus recent hits such as Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Warrior, Super 8, True Grit, and Rango.
In all, 2,000 movies from EPIX will be coming to Prime Instant Video this year.
So are these the same titles that Netflix signed an agreement with EPIX earlier this year as well? The more choices and places to access the content the better for the consumer.
Netflix signed a multi year agreement with Epix-I believe it was for 5 years, the first 2 of which gave them exclusive access to the streaming rights for the material Epix supplied. Now that exclusivity has ended, and Epix is free to sell the same package to other streaming outlets. The Epix material will still be available on Instant Watch.,
Netflix signed a multi year agreement with Epix-I believe it was for 5 years, the first 2 of which gave them exclusive access to the streaming rights for the material Epix supplied. Now that exclusivity has ended, and Epix is free to sell the same package to other streaming outlets. The Epix material will still be available on Instant Watch.,
I don't think so. At least according to the press release in the HDTV Programming thread under Latest HDTV News:
Sure. Just convince Apple to allow Amazon to establish a beachhead on Apple devices to provide free streaming of movies and tv and rent and sell even more al la carte in competition with iTunes.
That Apple gives away a free iTunes client for Windows proves that the sale and rental of digital entertainment is a core business for Apple, not merely a come-on to sell its devices. Given the relative size of the user bases, Apple may well make more money selling entertainment to Windows owners than Apple owners.
In short: Don't hold your breath waiting for Amazon VOD to show up on an Apple device - and don't blame its absence on Amazon.
On Netflix streaming I still see Thor in HD, Iron Man 2 in HD, Transformers Dark of the Moon in HD, Kick-Ass in HD, and Rango in HD. All from the Amazon press release. There are probably more but those are the only ones I checked on my Roku2.
I was talking about this on the Roku forums (here):
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Amazon is bragging about the Epix deal on their site's top page, citing Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor, Iron Man 2, Super 8, True Grit, Warrior, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Rango as being films that are now available due to the deal. I put all of them on my Amazon Watchlist and on my Netflix IQ and found that, on my Roku 2, none of them is in either HD or has a 5.1 soundtrack (though some of their pages on Amazon's site claim that they're in HD on the streamers). All are in HD on Netflix, with 5.1 sound for Thor (though it has a pretty bad HD transfer). I assume that the content providers don't want their best stuff on these buffet streaming service in its best presentation, but I'd rather watch these things in 1080p on Netflix than SD widescreen on Amazon.
All but Transformers and Rango show up as HD w/5.1 sound in the Amazon player on the PS3 (one of the finest pieces of UI design that I've ever seen for any app on any platform), so the fact that they don't appear as such on Roku could be a bug in Roku's player (I played a little of True Grit on the PS3 and was getting 7.1 channel LPCM--for some reason the PS3 does not choose to pass Dolby through).
I put them on my watch list from my pc but haven't looked for them in my Roku yet - but here's an idea: It may be that the watch list button on the Amazon web site puts the lowest-common-denominator version of the film onto your watch list.
Maybe if you search for the films in the Amazon app on the Roku you might find the HD versions.
I may not have time to try this for a few days, but if you do, I'd be interested in reading what you find.
I generally find that Amazon's 720p/5.1 feed of movies is pretty good. As a member of the pre-HDMI AVR fraternity, I'm trapped back in the last generation of Rokus that have an optical SPDIF jack (I use the XDS, which can do 1080p, but gets that only from the 1080p Showcase - scraped from YouTube).
With that box I get 5.1 Dolby Digital from Amazon but only stereo from Netflix, with both of them at 720p, so my Amazon streams can be technically-superior to my Netflix streams.
As I wrote in my post above, when I look at the same items in the Watchlist on the PS3's Amazon player they are in HD with 5.1 sound (all except Transformers and Rango and I don't think that Amazon claims that they're in HD). If you go to Amazon's page for the titles that are in HD, it says that they're available in HD.
I just searched for them on my Roku no HD copy shows up for any of them. Iron Man 2 shows up as HD w/5.1 sound on the Roku but none of the others. I feel fairly certain that it's a bug in the Roku Amazon player.
As I wrote in my post above, when I look at the same items in the Watchlist on the PS3's Amazon player they are in HD with 5.1 sound (all except Transformers and Rango and I don't think that Amazon claims that they're in HD). If you go to Amazon's page for the titles that are in HD, it says that they're available in HD.
I just searched for them on my Roku no HD copy shows up for any of them. Iron Man 2 shows up as HD w/5.1 sound on the Roku but none of the others. I feel fairly certain that it's a bug in the Roku Amazon player.
Michael T Scott were you a Network Engineer for a large Defense/Integration firm in SD? I just remember a guy by that name a few years back but alas your name is quite common I am sure.
As I wrote in my post above, when I look at the same items in the Watchlist on the PS3's Amazon player they are in HD with 5.1 sound (all except Transformers and Rango and their pages at Amazon's site don't claim that they're in HD; strangely neither does the page for Super 8, but it shows up as in HD w/5.1 sound in the PS3's player). If you go to Amazon's page for the titles that are in HD, it says that they're available in HD.
I just searched for them on my Roku no HD copy shows up for any of them except for Iron Man 2 which shows up as HD w/5.1 sound. I feel fairly certain that it's a bug in the Roku Amazon player.
Anyone having an issue with the watch list not displaying more than 25 titles?
ROKU HD
Noticed it the day the Epix deal was announced.
TV seems fine, only Movies has an issue with more than 25 titles.
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That's kind of odd, I'm showing 63 on my two Rokus from the previous generation (XD and XDS) as well as my Roku 2XS and my PS3.