Slipping a little non-CES news in here, Amazon has a few deals on VOD content. First up are $0.99 rental deals on independent films: The Signal, The Host, Broken English, Jesus Camp, and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.

There is a $5.99 digital movie sale with 43 titles. That’s $5.99 to own, not rentals.

And finally, Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and Resident Evil: Extinction are all $7.99 each to own, 50% off.

The $100 Roku video player, often referred to as the Roku Netflix Player, or just the Netflix STB, will have to change its reputation. No longer just a client for Netflix streaming, Roku is adding Amazon Video On Demand to the system. That’s certainly a nice bonus for those who’ve purchased the system as Amazon VOD has an extensive library of newer content which is generally missing from Netflix. Unlike TiVo, which offers Amazon content as download-to-view, the Roku box will stream the video.

Picked up from Gadget Lab at Wired.

Amazon VOD is running some specials for your movie downloading pleasure over the holidays. First up there are four rentals available for just $0.99: Fred Claus, Love Actually, Night at the Museum, and Space Chimps. Also, Tropic Thunder is only $2.99.

They also have 64 movies on sale, to own not rent, for just $5.99. You can probably find something in that assortment that you’d like to own.

Through December 29th Amazon is running a special promotion. Buy any one of seven approved Samsung HDTV models and a TiVo HD, and receive an instant $150 off on the TiVo HD when you checkout. That’s $150 off Amazon’s price of $233.18, making the TiVo HD just $83.18! The Samsung HDTVs range from 40″ to 52″ and $936.72 to $2,249.98, all 1080p LCDs. That’s not all, if you purchase a TiVo HD from Amazon through January 15, 2009 you also receive two free movie rentals from Amazon Video On Demand.

I just grabbed that screenshot off my TiVo Series3, note the new menu item “Available In High Definition”! It looks like someone jumped the gun, if you select that item it takes you to the same screen as “Top Categories & Special Deals”. But clearly this is in indication that HD downloads are coming, and probably soon. Most likely someone flipped the wrong bit and I’m seeing a menu item meant for testers.

We’ve been getting hints for a while now, back in May in an interview TiVo’s Jim Denney said we’d see Amazon HD content in the “not too distant future”. And all the way back in March, 2007 a lead engineer for the then Amazon Unbox said HD content was coming.

Hopefully that menu item goes live for real soon.

This week Amazon VOD is offering three $0.99 rentals: The Incredible Hulk, Get Smart, and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.

They’re also offering discounted purchases on a number of titles. Fourteen titles for $4.99 and eight titles for $5.99. They’re also offering ten complete television seasons for $14.99 each: The Office Seasons 2 & 3, Monk Seasons 2, 3, 4, & 5, Friday Night Lights Seasons 1 & 2, and House Seasons 1 & 2. And there are a number of free downloads.

This weekend Amazon VOD offers two great movies as $0.99 rentals: Idiocracy and Serenity.

There is also a Veteran’s Day Sale, featuring nine movies to purchase for $5.99 each: The Patriot, Air Force One, Black Hawk Down, Tears of the Sun, The Hunt for Eagle One, The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point, Stealth, Sniper, and Sniper 3.

Amazon VOD is currently running a sale offering entire seasons of TV series for just $5 a season. The offerings include: House Season 1, House Season 2, House Season 3, House Season 4, Heroes Volume 1, Heroes Volume 2, Battlestar Galactica Season 1, Battlestar Galactica Season 2, Battlestar Galactica Season 3, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Season 1, and The Office Season 4. Additionally the SNL Best of 2008 Campaign Season 1 is just $1.99.

And the Scary Movie Sale is still running with $0.99 rentals.

This weekend Amazon VOD has a few special offers. The Notebook, The Big Lebowski, and Then She Found Me are $0.99 rentals, while The Forbidden Kingdom and What Happens in Vegas are available for $1.99.

There are also ten horror films and thrillers available as $0.99 rentals: Dreamcatcher, The Initiation of Sarah, Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Buried Alive, Panic Room, The Unholy, See No Evil, Darkness Falls, Horror of Dracula, and Wolf.

With Saw V hitting theaters the first four films are 50% off. Saw, Saw II, and Saw III are $6.99 and Saw IV is $7.99.

And there are deals on NBC TV series. Buy Heroes season 1 and get season 2 50% off, buy Law & Order: SVU season 1 and get season 7, 8, or 9 for 66% off, and buy 30 Rock season 1 and get season 2 for 50% off. Or subscribe to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart or The Colbert Report, both 67% off.

TiVo announced a deal to bring Disney content downloads to their boxes, via CinemaNow, back in May, and a similar deal with Jaman all the way back in January. But little had been said about the deals since the announcements, until now.

Jaman.com content should become available on broadband connected TiVo boxes starting today. Similar to Amazon Video On Demand, Jaman content will be available for purchase or rent with prices starting at $1.99. Jaman’s library contains internationally-acclaimed films, including Indie and Film Festival Favorites, Best of Bollywood and Documentaries. Titles include Oscar nominees Girl with a Pearl Earring, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, and Supersize Me, as well as independent gems like Oil and Ice, Bollywood greats Devdas and Chokher Bali and anime landmarks Ghost in the Shell and Robotech. Jaman will also offer some content for download free of charge.

Disney content, provided through CinemaNow, will be available sometime next week. Disney content will be available for rental with prices starting at $2.99. Both classic favorites such as Dumbo and Fox & The Hound and newer films like Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest will be available.

And while the focus of the deal has been Disney content, which is not available through Amazon VOD, it does include CinemaNow content in general. So this will give users a great deal more content to choose from.

Both should show up under Find Programs & Downloads -> Download TV, Movies, & Web Video. The content, as with Amazon VOD, will be in standard definition. However, TiVo is working to add high-definition downloads to the TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, and TiVo HD XL.

I can’t wait for the HD downloading option. I also hope that TiVo is working on streaming options, now that they have streaming in place for YouTube. I’d like to see streaming from Amazon VOD, and then Netflix, Hulu, and other sites. That would make TiVo the box to have for online content.