One of the first things you hear shortly after you announce to the world that you're having a baby is "get a Netflix subscription." It lands somewhere between "congratulations" and "kiss sleep goodbye." It's certainly understandable advice: the last thing you need to be doing is running needless errands when there are diapers to change. (Actually, that's the best time to run errands.)
Well the babies came but I held out against Netflix. Not for any ideological reason - I recognize its utility - but because I was already using my TiVo to download videos on demand from
Amazon.com. It was by no means a perfect service, but I held out hope that my continued patronage would lead to improvements. And lo and behold, earlier this week,
Amazon addressed the biggest knock on the service by launching HD movies and TV shows on demand.
To access their library, you'll need a set top device, like the
Roku digital video player or a TiVo (Series 3, HD, or HD XL model). It can also be accessed on
Sony's Bravia Internet Video Link-enabled
HDTVs or through
Panasonic's Viera Cast equipped HDTVs.
I'm looking forward to seeing it in action.
Print | posted @ Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:17 PM