2013-04-21, 15:08
Everybody should be adding messages to their Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/AmazonInstantVideo
http://www.facebook.com/AmazonInstantVideo
(2013-04-21, 15:08)fullmoonguru Wrote: Everybody should be adding messages to their Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/AmazonInstantVideo
(2013-04-22, 03:17)pastafarian Wrote: There is a nice contingency of posters making comments on the Facebook page. A lot of them are Android users, and according to Amazon support, their problem is due to a change in their XBMC viewer. I assume this is not the problem with people who had, until recently, been successfully using bluecop's excellent viewer (thanks Bluecop!)bluecop is MIA with personal stuff. While I appreciate his work... God knows its the reason why I use XBMC... I really feel that VOD addon development needs to become official from the XBMC folks... Otherwise this is just a client for pirated video.
Any updates on workarounds?
(2013-04-22, 04:04)locoguano Wrote:(2013-04-22, 03:17)pastafarian Wrote: There is a nice contingency of posters making comments on the Facebook page. A lot of them are Android users, and according to Amazon support, their problem is due to a change in their XBMC viewer. I assume this is not the problem with people who had, until recently, been successfully using bluecop's excellent viewer (thanks Bluecop!)bluecop is MIA with personal stuff. While I appreciate his work... God knows its the reason why I use XBMC... I really feel that VOD addon development needs to become official from the XBMC folks... Otherwise this is just a client for pirated video.
Any updates on workarounds?
(2013-04-22, 23:07)StayXBMC Wrote: Frankly without Amazon and Netflix, XBMC is of little use to me. Looks like I will just get a Roku 3 box and combine with Plex server
(2013-04-23, 01:04)artrafael Wrote:(2013-04-22, 23:07)StayXBMC Wrote: Frankly without Amazon and Netflix, XBMC is of little use to me. Looks like I will just get a Roku 3 box and combine with Plex server
Frankly if all you need is Amazon and Netflix, you shouldn't have gone the XBMC route to begin with as it's more media center functionality than you need. In other words, even if there are working add-ons for Amazon and Netflix in XBMC, it still would be simpler for you to use something like a Roku to access just those two services.
(2013-04-22, 06:03)pastafarian Wrote:(2013-04-22, 04:04)locoguano Wrote:(2013-04-22, 03:17)pastafarian Wrote: There is a nice contingency of posters making comments on the Facebook page. A lot of them are Android users, and according to Amazon support, their problem is due to a change in their XBMC viewer. I assume this is not the problem with people who had, until recently, been successfully using bluecop's excellent viewer (thanks Bluecop!)bluecop is MIA with personal stuff. While I appreciate his work... God knows its the reason why I use XBMC... I really feel that VOD addon development needs to become official from the XBMC folks... Otherwise this is just a client for pirated video.
Any updates on workarounds?
This may be, but I'd rather not have to wait for another 3rd-party client. I think that ultimately, Amazon needs to support their paying customers who want the option to view content on their device of choice. Otherwise, they're really just going to drive people to other content providers or torrent sites. Just my opinion.
(2013-04-23, 01:31)StayXBMC Wrote:(2013-04-23, 01:04)artrafael Wrote:(2013-04-22, 23:07)StayXBMC Wrote: Frankly without Amazon and Netflix, XBMC is of little use to me. Looks like I will just get a Roku 3 box and combine with Plex server
Frankly if all you need is Amazon and Netflix, you shouldn't have gone the XBMC route to begin with as it's more media center functionality than you need. In other words, even if there are working add-ons for Amazon and Netflix in XBMC, it still would be simpler for you to use something like a Roku to access just those two services.
Maybe you're right but I found XBMC/HTPC a lot nicer than the streamers for all of my uses but without streaming video services the best device based upon features changes. I prefer the XBMC interface over Roku or WDTV or even the Plex client The HTPC has support for wide variety of video codecs so it plays all my old stored content in whatever form it is contained, and the HTPC I like being able to watch the occasional video via a web browser. XBMC HTPC used to handle my video streaming needs so I had 1 device not 2-4 under my TV. Now with the lack of streaming I have to figure out which is the next best thing to do everything in total and re-evaluate based upon the feature lists for each option.