Amazon streaming HD to TiVo soon?

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Listen up, couch potatoes! It looks like NetFlix and Vudu might not be the only streaming services that will offer up a high definition content. Opening up Amazon Video On Demand on your TiVo now shows a tab called “Available in High Definition,” but apparently clicking on it does nothing. A teaser, maybe? Or a slip up? We get the feeling that we’ll all find out very soon, but it seems as though it’s a done deal. Blockbuster is going to have to do something about the “DVD quality” streams they’ll be doing via set-top boxes in order to keep up with the game. So, if you subscribe to Amazon’s video service and would like to do us a favor, keep clicking it every five minutes and tell as soon as it works, thanks. Otherwise, we’ll keep you all updated as soon as we find out ourselves.

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2 Comments
  • http://www.zatznotfunny.com Dave Zatz

    That Amazon HD menu item was removed earlier today – it was indeed a slip up. Hopefully it’ll be real sooner rather than later, but word is ‘Netflix on TiVo’ will arrive first.

  • Kunikos

    While I would very much like this feature, I’m guessing the content will only be in 720p. If they offer 1080i or 1080p content that would be pretty awesome, but I’m not holding my breath. (Although the TiVo HD unit does have an MPEG4 decoder chip)

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