Amazon Instant Video now on Xbox 360

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Amazon announced today that "Amazon Instant Video" is now available for the Xbox 360. This does require Amazon Prime and Xbox Live Gold.

Dear Customers,

You can already stream Prime Instant Videos on your Kindle Fire, your PlayStation 3, your Roku, and hundreds of other TVs, Blu-ray players, and set-top boxes. Today, we're excited to announce that the Xbox 360 joins the fold.

We've also just added a new Watchlist feature, which helps you keep track of the movies and TV episodes you want to view later. You can add favorites and new discoveries to your list—then come back anytime to watch instantly. Try it on your Xbox 360, Kindle Fire, or your browser on PC & Mac ... and Watchlist is coming soon to PlayStation 3 and Roku.

With instant streaming of thousands of movies and TV episodes, Free Two-Day Shipping on millions of items, and over 145,000 Kindle books to borrow for free from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, Amazon Prime is an outstanding value and remains only $79 a year. Millions of people have already joined Prime. You can sign up for a one-month free trial today.

Thanks for being a customer.

Jeff Bezos
Founder & CEO

[JTScribe]

Wish there was a MCE app . . . I have Prime because of my Kindle Fire but I've not used it much for watching video.

[gpatlanta]

Wish there was a MCE app . . . I have Prime because of my Kindle Fire but I've not used it much for watching video.

I recall reading a while back of someone who had managed to use an Amazon app that downloads locally and configured it for their library in MC. Can't recall the specifics, but the seemed to like the solution and I believe they were able to queue things easily for download. Sorry I cannot remember more, but I don"t use prime.

[gpatlanta]

Ok, looked it up and found this:

http://thegreenbutton.tv/forums/viewtop ... 439#p11439

Also checked out unbox and it seems it isn't for instant streaming, so perhaps not a solution after all.

[barnabas1969]

No, not exactly "instant", but pretty darn fast. You install Amazon Unbox on your Media Center PC, specify the directory where the videos will be saved, and then point Media Center to the same location for "videos".

Then, you login to Amazon on your PC/laptop/tablet/whatever, choose a movie/show, and send it to your Media Center PC. It will download within minutes (sometimes seconds), and then you can browse your "Video" library in Media Center and watch the movie/show. Pretty easy stuff.

I've only tried this with free stuff so far... and the video quality on the free stuff I tried was sub-par compared to Netflix, but it was very, very easy to use. I watch primarily cable TV and OTA shows, with a little bit of Netflix streaming and DVD/BluRay rentals thrown in... so I may not be the best source of information, but I will say that Amazon Unbox is very easy to use.

[milli260876]

there will be an "app" for that... Lol

[JTScribe]

No, not exactly "instant", but pretty darn fast. You install Amazon Unbox on your Media Center PC, specify the directory where the videos will be saved, and then point Media Center to the same location for "videos".

Then, you login to Amazon on your PC/laptop/tablet/whatever, choose a movie/show, and send it to your Media Center PC. It will download within minutes (sometimes seconds), and then you can browse your "Video" library in Media Center and watch the movie/show. Pretty easy stuff.

I've only tried this with free stuff so far... and the video quality on the free stuff I tried was sub-par compared to Netflix, but it was very, very easy to use. I watch primarily cable TV and OTA shows, with a little bit of Netflix streaming and DVD/BluRay rentals thrown in... so I may not be the best source of information, but I will say that Amazon Unbox is very easy to use.

Hmm. Have to try it.