Amazon to offer streamed movies and TV
Amazon.com has opened the Amazon Unbox, removing the need to download content and instead streaming it to customer’s televisions sets. Called Amazon Video on Demand, it is expected to be introduced Thursday, The New York Times reports. Apple’s iTunes store and Amazon’s initial foray required customers to download movies before they could begin watching them. Amazon Video on Demand streams the content, eliminating the wait. To access the service, potential users will have to purchase a $300 Internet video link, which is offered by Sony Bravia. Currently, Sony is the only company to support the service, but Amazon is working with other vendors to come on board. Amazon’s initial offering will include 40,000 movie and television titles.
Amazon joins Netflix, Microsoft and Apple in the digital video fray, as each company continues to expand their footprint in the living room. Apple iTunes is a well-known entity and, paired with the recently updated Apple TV, has a head start. However, the competition for streaming video is stiffening. Microsoft and Netflix recently announced a partnership that will allow users to stream video through their Xbox. Customers must have an Xbox Gold membership to take advantage of the 10,000 movies and television shows that the pairing will offer.
Source: CRN
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not to be outdone by usenet@
Lol might as well rent it for cheaper through red box $1 and on mondays u rent free. + you can watch it as many times as u like.
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When I first read it I thought it said “Amazon to suffer streamed movies and TV”.
Wonder how old most of the TV and Films will be .Like sky and digital ,probably most stuff will be old crap that you can get for free
wait so you can just watch it once?
Ya Sony just released it’s own service for the Ps3. $3.99 for a 14 day rental or $14.99 to buy the movie. Looks like they are about 2GB. Ahhh no thanks…I think I’ll stick with my Netflixs 4 now.
taking up more of the overall internet bandwidth & then blame it on bitorrent again
talking about movies im at the wellington international film festival at the moment seeing 5 movies from it.just saw a complete history of my sexual failures so funny.
seeimg 3 tomorrow anita oday the life of a jazz singer.,married life and a great new zealand movie rain of the children which is about a maori prophet who creats a building for his followers in the ranges and 3 people get killed true story looks great
No thanks LOL. Ill stick with Usenet, Fios, And my $5 DVI to HDMI cable and stream HD or Divx content right to my HDTV.
Looks like there are lots of low cost ways these days to watch movies legally.
Hulu (Free) (Streaming)
RedBox (Free-$1) (Physical)
NetFlix ($5-$34/Month) (Physical/Streaming)
PS3 Online Store (Download/Streaming)
XBox 360 Live (Download/Streaming)
Amazon (Free-$1.99 & Up) (Download/Streaming)
iTunes (Free-$1.99 & Up)(Download)
I don’t generally mind streaming as long as they have a large enough buffer to make network congestion not an issue. But I have to say I have not been impressed with any of the Flash streaming stuff since the overhead for decent quality flash stuff means you need a fairly high-end system to play it back without any sync issues. The Divx streaming seems ok where I have seen it. Too bad no one has ever made an Xvid streaming plug-in.
What would really rock would be an X-264 streaming plug-in. I know that Adobe released a flash H-264 player, but it would be nice to see X264 come out with something.
x264 have released a codec for streaming numbnuts, i was using it to stream wc3 to over 11,000 people……
This probably would have been quite popular before the age of file sharing…
Amazon Unbox has actually been out for a while now, but they only downloaded to Tivo owners. I think the change is that they opened it up to other format types now.