New enhancements and bundles with Xbox 360 out

| Updated: Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 13:19 [IST]

Xbox 360 is always in news with some kind of enhancements or else through new bundles including some of the popular branded games. The latest interesting piece of news with Xbox 360 is the availability of live Amazon Instant Video streaming on the device. It is specifically meant for Prime Customers.

Amazon has offered an Amazon Prime subscription and Xbox LIVE Gold account by which users can stream TV shows and movies instantly. They have brought options like pay-as-you-go model for non-subscribers apart from the standard offer for usual customers. The new app comes with a Kinect integration by which users can navigate through app menus just by waving one’s arms. Those who are pretty comfortable with interfaces can still use control pad or else controllers as well.

Xbox 360 streaming app also features Kindle-like WhsiperSync technology by which users can instantly start watching their content like Kindle Fire and can easily switch to Xbox 360 console. There are no options to purchase these contents via Xbox 360 streaming app but only add it to the watchlist to be enjoyed later.

Customers can stream instantly about 17,000 movies and also TV episodes including popular shows like Mad Men, Once Upon A Time, Fringe, Vampire Diaries and Chappelle Show, and also movies like Forrest Gump, Ghost Protocol, The Grey, We Bought a Zoo and Mission Impossible 3.

Customers can feel free to visit Amazon Website and can shop their interested ones among 120,000 movies and also TV episodes. The purchased and also rented videos automatically appear on their Video Library right on the Xbox 360’s Amazon Instant Video app.

Microsoft Xbox 360 is a powerful console for many video units like Hulu Plus, MLB, Crackle, Netflix, and a lot more. And now with the entry of Amazon, the popularity and influence of Xbox 360 gaming device is made more specific. Amazon is equally important in news with a lot of new ideas in this short period of time. PlayStation 3 app was the latest one put forward by Amazon which made a jerk in the gaming world. With this new video streaming app for Xbox 360, the journey seems to be in the right direction.

With all these new enhancements Xbox 360 owners will be taken to a new level of gaming with these initiatives like new bundles and steaming technology. Xbox 360 owners and admirers can expect more crunchy ideas from the company further enhancing their gaming and entertainment experience.