Amazon ready to begin HD streaming to TiVo?

Step aside NetFlix, looks like Amazon is finally ready to crash your HD streaming party. According to one reader, the "Available in High Definition" menu pick just appeared under his TiVo's Amazon Video on Demand menu. Nothing happens when he clicks it but we imagine that might get sorted by the time the sun comes back around the globe. Anyone else seeing this?

[Thanks, Rich]

[PyRo1509 @ Dec 3rd 2008 4:04AM]

I'm not gonna complain about high def...
Hope the download times wont be bad

[Chris @ Dec 3rd 2008 5:08AM]

Got it... works great in HD.

[Dave Zatz @ Dec 3rd 2008 8:37AM]

Actually, you don't got it. It's just a menu item that points back to the SD items. But, this is obviously a feature that's coming (soon?).

[Todd @ Dec 3rd 2008 5:15AM]

Is this the first time ever an Egadget "READ" link goes out to Twitter? Historic if so!

[KarlW @ Dec 3rd 2008 7:28AM]

No, it also happened on a post dated 2nd February 2008. It was posted by Paul Miller at 15:36, and was regarding an iPhone rumor. The post also contained a record 12 hyphens.

I should get out more.

[wrabbit @ Dec 3rd 2008 9:43AM]

@KarlW: Dude, seriously, the fact that you know it freaks me out!

[kevin @ Dec 3rd 2008 5:26AM]

My Tivo shows the same thing. Streaming HD to the Tivo is awesome!

[Jake @ Dec 3rd 2008 7:03AM]

Yep, there it is. But it just takes me to the "Top Movie Rentals" menu. So I don't understand the other comments suggesting that it is working... what am I missing?

[d3bruts1d @ Dec 3rd 2008 7:41AM]

The TiVo-Amazon has been broken for a lot (if not all) users since the last update. When I talked to someone @ Amazon Video On Demand (Unbox) on Monday night it was still down... didn't get a chance to talk to anyone last night, but my videos were still not downloading.

I wonder if the "in HD" is only available on the HD TiVo... which would make since.

[d3bruts1d @ Dec 3rd 2008 9:08PM]

Well, as of right now, the service is still fuxxored for some people (myself included). Grrr.

[kpfeif @ Dec 3rd 2008 9:50AM]

Ugh. I've had the HD TiVo box for about a month now. I had the DirecTiVo setup for three years. If the HD side works as crappy as the SD side, who really cares? The HDTiVo box seems very buggy to me. The UI is slow, the tuner is slow, and the online content hooks are atrocious. Here's to hoping they fix it with the next release.

[2178743 @ Dec 3rd 2008 9:50AM]

Any news on when Blockbuster will team up with Tivo, or does NetFlix have a monopoly on that?

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[Bob S. @ Dec 3rd 2008 10:10AM]

I really wish Tivo's lousy coders would figure out and fix the bugs before they added more features useful to a few. Every day I have to check my To Do list and re-delete programs I'd deleted previously that the miserable thing adds back. These aren't suggestions (which I have turned off) -- they're shows where I have First-Run Only season passes, but the POS puts every single rerun into To Do anyway and adds them back at random times after I delete them the first time. (And yes, the programming info correctly carries the rerun flag. This is strictly a Tivo bug. This happens on every show on which I have First-Run Only set, and only on those shows.)

[BigJimInDC @ Dec 3rd 2008 10:21AM]

Aside from any unknown, but potential hurdles that Sony and Microsoft have in place for writing software for the PS3 and XBox360 respectively, why Amazon has teamed up with TiVo and Blockbuster has entered the set top box hardware market is beyond my comprehension. Given these numbers (http://tvbythenumbers.com/2007/09/11/dvr-installed-base-august-2007/619), TiVo (~2million in USA) has between 5-10% the install base of the PS3 (~17million/~6million in USA) and XBox360 (~22million/~12million in USA) individually, per these numbers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3) and (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360). Maybe they are simply targeting different consumer bases, but if I were Amazon and Blockbuster, I would be following NetFlix and building native software client applications for the PS3 and XBox360.

[Jake @ Dec 3rd 2008 12:28PM]

You need to study math more. Besides that, I think the amount of people watching TV & Videos on their TiVo is much larger than the number of people regularly watching on their PS3 or XBox. I have an XBox and TiVo, and I'd much rather get a movie via TiVo than via XBox.

[Bakk @ Dec 3rd 2008 12:19PM]

So, when is this going live??? I have my remote in my hand and am ready to click Buy as soon as I see an HD flick listed.