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post #781 of 923
I'm sorry--the way that you phrased the sentence that I quoted made it sound as though you got 5.1 sound with Watchlist support.
post #782 of 923
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Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland View Post

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.
post #783 of 923
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Originally Posted by Philnick View Post

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.

From Home Media Mag
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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%).


Hopefully Amazon will update the app soon.
post #784 of 923
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.
post #785 of 923
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Originally Posted by tomanystraydogs View Post

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.
post #786 of 923
Make it work on Airplay and you have something.
post #787 of 923
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Originally Posted by tomanystraydogs View Post

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.
post #788 of 923
Netflix’s exclusive deal with Epix expired.
post #789 of 923
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.,
post #790 of 923
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Originally Posted by Westly-C View Post

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:

http://www.avsforum.com/t/838060/hot-off-the-press-the-latest-tv-news-and-information/82020

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I think it has expired and now Amazon has exclusive rights to it, but I could be wrong.
post #791 of 923
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Originally Posted by Gary J View Post

Make it work on Airplay and you have something.

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.
post #792 of 923
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Originally Posted by Gary J View Post

Make it work on Airplay and you have something.
Jailbreak you Apple TV and it will.
post #793 of 923
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Originally Posted by STEELERSRULE View Post

I don't think so. At least according to the press release in the HDTV Programming thread under Latest HDTV News:
http://www.avsforum.com/t/838060/hot-off-the-press-the-latest-tv-news-and-information/82020
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I think it has expired and now Amazon has exclusive rights to it, but I could be wrong.

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.
post #794 of 923
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).
post #795 of 923
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.
post #796 of 923
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.
post #797 of 923
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Originally Posted by michaeltscott View Post

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.
post #798 of 923
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.
post #799 of 923
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Originally Posted by Philnick View Post


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.

You mean like this?
post #800 of 923
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Originally Posted by Gary J View Post

You mean like this?

Yep, I'm using the Amazon Video On Demand App for my Ipad. It works quite well and has a nice user interface.
post #801 of 923
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Originally Posted by lokilarry View Post

Yep, I'm using the Amazon Video On Demand App for my Ipad. It works quite well and has a nice user interface.

Oh - that's very different. Nevermind.
post #802 of 923
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Originally Posted by Philnick View Post

Oh - that's very different. Nevermind.

How is that different? C'mon Philnick, I want to hear your explanation! wink.gif

(Just kidding...)
post #803 of 923
Nothing different about it. The only thing it presently does not do is Airplay.
post #804 of 923
No one here remembers Emily Litella from the early years of Saturday Night Live?

And now, here's Emily Litella with a listener comment:

"What's all this I hear about saving Soviet jewlery? What's so special about Soviet jewlery?"

Dan Ackroyd leans over - "That's Soviet Jewry, not jewelry."

"Oh - that's very different. Nevermind."


It's a sad day when you have to footnote a reference to pop culture!

Oh, well, if it's not one thing, it's another.
post #805 of 923
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.

tia
post #806 of 923
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Originally Posted by Philnick View Post

No one here remembers Emily Litella from the early years of Saturday Night Live?
I remember those bits. My favorite was "What's all this fuss about Sax and Violins on television?" biggrin.gif
post #807 of 923
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Originally Posted by tomanystraydogs View Post

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.
tia
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.
post #808 of 923
Buck - that's good to know, mines really dead set on not showing any movie titles past 25.

I get the 'can't contact Amazon, bla bla' message.

No buffering, displays 27 tv titles, really never had an issue until now.

speedtest.net has me at 20Mbps down, 1 up and a 15ms ping. Not sure where the prime servers are located.

bummer, the watch list is really helpful.
post #809 of 923
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Originally Posted by tomanystraydogs View Post

Anyone having an issue with the watch list not displaying more than 25 titles?

I called Amazon yesterday, today it's fixed smile.gif
post #810 of 923
I'm disappointed that Iron Man 2 is listed as HD and 5.1 yet on my Roku I'm getting 2.0 pcm. Is anyone getting 5.1 via the Roku for this title?
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