Netflix and now Amazon on PS3

[cimerians]

"Prime Instant Video is now available on PlayStation 3."

 

Good news. I use Netflix on the PS3 quite a bit and I'm also a Prime member on Amazon.

[moycon]

I'm a prime member as well. These streaming features through the consoles are GREAT!

 

As someone who bought Play-On ($30) years ago.

I've been able to stream just about everything that's offered now on the consoles for years. (Hulu, YouTube, Amazon vids...etc...)

 

I cut the cable years and years ago, and have never been happier.

[Bilnick]

This is perfect timing. I had been looking at buying a Roku to stream Amazon Prime videos to my main TV. I had been hesitating because my receiver is out of HDMI ports. This saved me $100 and another remote on the coffee table.

[HammR25]

Yeah I noticed Amazon Prime was on their today and looked at the selection. I went ahead and got Prime since I order a lot from Amazon anyway.

[cimerians]

Right, I've been hoping an Amazon 'app' for the PS3 would come out. I had some trouble using the service yesterday after I registered the console, it would just hang. I'll be trying it again the next few days.

[Mendon]

After about 4 months of non-use, I just unboxed my PS3 and started using it once more. Thanks for the info about Amazon Prime on the PS3 as I'll be checking it out tonight. I wasn't aware of the app until I saw your post!!

 

I'm not knocking the other systems, but have found that I prefer the the PS3 app's over their Xbox and Wii versions. The PS3 app's seem to have a few more features and a nicer interface for me.

 

 

Mendon

[+SpiceWare]

I signed up for Prime because of this. I'm impressed with the picture quality, but am annoyed that it's letter boxing everything. I watched the first Mythbusters and there black bars at the top/bottom and Adam and Jamie looked fat. I also watched Farscape and likewise Crichton and gang were fat with black bars on all 4 sides of the image. It's even letter boxing the menu screens.

 

I contacted them a couple weeks ago and they said "make sure your PS3 has 720p turned on", despite the fact that I told them in my original message that 720p was not an option^*. So I reiterated that 720p wasn't an option and they replied back that they'd forward it to their video team. Haven't heard anything since then. They did release an update to the player, but that was the day after I sent the initial inquiry and it didn't fix the problem I'm having.

 

I suspect what's happening is Amazon wrote the player with the assumption that 720p = 16:9 display and 480p = 4:3 display.

 

 

^* my TV died in 2001, so I bought an HDTV early on. My HDTV predates HDMI by a couple years, so it's connected to HD sources via component video. It also only supports 480i, 480p and 1080i, displaying a blue screen with out-of-sync message if it receives a 720p signal.

[+SpiceWare]

Version 1.02 of Amazon's player was installed today. It's now running at 1080i and everything's shown with the correct aspect ratio. Just watched an episode of Sons of Anarchy and the picture was definitely HD quality.