The tech giants, who are increasingly competing for customers’ time, eyeballs and money, are close to an agreement to bring an Amazon video app to Apple’s Apple TV set-top box, according to people familiar with the two companies.
Recently we’ve begun renting movies on Amazon Prime instead of iTunes via Apple TV because our Apple TV (which is, admittedly a generation behind) no longer works to rent movies. Rented movies play for a few moments than stop. All other videos (even trailers for the movies) work just fine. So we end up asking for a refund every time. So now we use Prime and it works great.
I am, however, hopeful that Amazon and Apple make this happen. It may actually get me to upgrade to the latest Apple TV.
/via John Gruber.