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Amazon Instant Video is now streaming to Xbox 360

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Microsoft announced a new partnership that will let Xbox 360 owners to access Amazon's massive choice of streaming video content from their gaming consoles.

With an Xbox Alive Gold account ($sixty annually) and an Amazon Prime membership ($79 per year), Xbox 360 users tin hop on the console's free Amazon Instant Video app and access more than 17,000 streaming movies and TV shows.

Ownership and renting videos on demand is currently non supported from the Xbox 360 app itself, users without an Amazon Prime membership tin can purchase i of the 100,000-plus streaming movies and Tv shows past visiting Amazon.com/instantvideo (opens in new tab).

Once purchased, the videos announced instantly on the Xbox 360 app'due south Watch List.

Amazon offers one-calendar month free trials of Amazon Prime for users who'd like to endeavour the service out.

Kinect functionality and Kindle Fire cooperation

Amazon's Instant Video service streams new episodes of many popular shows the day afterwards they air, and the entire selection is now available on the Xbox 360.

The Amazon Instant app is besides compatible with the Xbox 360's optional Kinect peripheral, a sensor-equipped device that allows users to control video choice and playback with arm gestures and voice commands.

What's more, the Xbox 360's Amazon Instant Video app can piece of work in tandem with Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet.

The devices will recall video playback positions, making it like shooting fish in a barrel to switch between them for portable or living room viewing.

The Amazon Instant Video app is free to download, and it'southward at present displayed prominently on the Xbox 360'southward "Apps" tab, only a button press (or gesture or voice command for Kinect users) away.

Will the videos stream in HD?

Amazon's United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland streaming service Lovefilm just announced a multi-year streaming bargain with Universal, a partnership that volition further fuel the state of war betwixt Netflix and Lovefilm that's already spawned several other sectional deals in the UK.

Lovefilm videos will be streaming in 720p, and an Amazon spokesperson confirmed to TechRadar via email that Amazon Instant videos streaming to the Xbox 360 in the US are available in total HD.

The Amazon Instant Video App brought complimentary Amazon Prime content and paid on-need movies and Goggle box shows to the Sony's PlayStation three in Apr, simply this is the first time the app has been available on the Xbox 360.

Via AFP

Michael Rougeau is a erstwhile freelance news writer for TechRadar. Studying at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Northeastern Academy, Michael has bylines at Kotaku, 1UP, G4, Circuitous Magazine, Digital Trends, GamesRadar, GameSpot, IFC, Brute New York, @Gamer, Inside the Magic, Comic Book Resource, Zap2It, TabTimes, GameZone, Cheat Code Central, Gameshark, Gameranx, The Manufacture, Debonair Mag, Kombo, and others.

Micheal likewise spent fourth dimension as the Games Editor for Playboy.com, and was the managing editor at GameSpot earlier condign an Animal Care Manager for Wags and Walks.