Amazon Video On Demand comes to Panasonic Blu-ray player
8/2009
Yet another reason for gadget fans to move to the States: Panasonic Blu-ray players equipped with Viera Cast tech will now be able to access Amazon’s Video On Demand service.Viera Cast Blu-ray decks are already able to show off Picasa photos and YouTube videos amongst other web-related widgetry, and a new service update (which is free) is now adding proper movie and TV show streaming. There are over 45,000 titles in Amazon’s library, including over 1,000 in HD (obviously a super-fast web connection is needed for those).
Amazon Video On Demand has been available on Viera Cast-equipped Panasonic televisions since April - again, we’re only talking about the US, of course. Here’s hoping that Panasonic manages to rustle up something similar on this side of the pond…