How to stream Amazon Prime videos through TV / Blu-ray / DVR ?
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Anonymous
| I have read all these reports and none seem to answer the question on how to stream movies from Amazon prime |
Anonymous
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OP, look at chromecast. It costs $35, you plug it into your TV, and it will play on your tv whatever is playing in a chrome browser.
It's cheap, it's easy. The quality will not be as good as if you were streaming directly through roku or similar, but if you don't like it, you've only spent $35. |
Anonymous
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Here is how I did it and I am no techie.
Cable comes out of the outlet into a splitter, one cable goes from splitter to DVR, another to the modem. One cable (looks likes a telephone cable plug) goes from modem to router Another telephone looking cable goes from router to my blue ray. There are two large grey cables, that came with the blue ray. One goes from the blue Ray to the tv. The othergoes from DVR to TV. So the internet goes from the wall, to DVR, to modem, to router, to blue ray, to the tv. turn on the tv and on the blue ray remote I pressed the netflix button and all the choices came up. Google you TV and with connecting to blue ray for streaming, that is how I figured it out |
Anonymous
Once you have it properly set up, the blue ray should list options, like Netflix, Hulu, youtube, and Amazon prime should be in there. Your first time it will ask you to set up your Amazon prime account in the blue ray. Enter your user name and password, and go from there. Same for Netflix. But you need an Amazon prime acco count, if you don't have one already it won't just magically stream movies for you on the blue ray. You need the prime subscription. |
Anonymous
| Do you have apps for amazon prime, netflix or other streaming services? My sony blu-ray is 4 years old and does so I'd imagine yours does. All I had to do was connect an Ethernet cord (looks like telephone cord) from fios box to blu ray. Click on apps and follow directions. |
Anonymous
Do you have an amazon instant video icon when you turn on your blu-ray? |
Anonymous
As a later poster suggested, you should be able to "add channels". That's where you find the good stuff. People didn't want to spring for the roku, but I had the roku and then an internet TV and I vastly prefer the layout, format, pause/FF capabilities of roku! |
Anonymous
| I bought a prime stick. Connected it thru USB on the side of my TV. Change my TV input and it opens up. It picked up my wifi and I put in password. The interface is super easy. They also have other apps on there like Netflix |
Anonymous
Amazon fire stick I mean. We had prime video thru our bluray and the interface was awful so we bought the stick when they were running the $20 promotion. I think it's $40 now and I'd still pay it |
Anonymous
| I use Roku, purely because my father did and he does tech for a living. I have Hulu plus, Amazon, Netflix, and a bunch of other channels available through the Roku+cable subscription. You can get the little usb version or a small box like I have. |
Anonymous
| Sometimes, the blu-ray player has an app that has Amazon Prime, Netflix, and other apps built it. Mine has that, and the wireless that goes with it. |
Anonymous
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Get a fire stick.
Very simple and easy |
Anonymous
Same here. The fire stick is so simple my 70 year old parents figured it out. Interface is easy. Hands down easiest way to access prime content and there are other apps as well - we mainly use it for prime and Netflix though. The fire tv box is a bit faster because you can hardware it to your internet router versus the stick using wifi. We have the stick on one tv and the box on another and are quite happy with both. The newest ones you can also search by voice which is convenient and you can access free prime music as well. |
Anonymous
| +1 for the fire stick. It is cheap and easy. |