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Amazon's Unbox movie downloads begin!
Amazon ends speculation and buzz by announcing their Unbox movie (and TV too) download service today! TV shows will be $1.99 (gee, that sounds familiar), movies will be $7.99 to $14.99 and $3.99 to rent them. Who knows at this point, but I'll bet if the service is the cat's meow it could give Blockbuster and even Netflix a run for their money. I see Amazon's service as taking the waiting out of getting your movies and TV shows, much like Apple, except it seems that Amazon has a bit more of a selection at this point. Hopefully Amazon's use restrictions will be bearable and I will be able to burn movies to play on my set-top player as well as my PC. They are even offering one free TV show to hook you.The big kahuna, ready to rock!
A sampling of networks with shows for sale:
A sampling of networks with shows for sale:
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Mr Wave Theory said 7:29PM on 9-07-2006
I love it. It's so much faster than iTunes. And at 2400 kpbs! Read my review http://mrwavetheory.blogspot.com/2006/09/watch-free-tv-show-at-amazon-unbox.html
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TechAddress said 8:21PM on 9-07-2006
Great story, read more information about Unbox.com at:
http://techaddress.wordpress.com/2006/09/07/amazon-unbox-launches-download-movies-and-tv/
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xaver said 5:44AM on 9-08-2006
It don't work with Apple computers
Bad, bad, bad thing
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Kenya said 4:37PM on 9-08-2006
It's not Mac-friendly so I'll wait on the iTunes version.
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Greenelf said 1:47PM on 9-09-2006
Well I just found out too late that those of us with WinXP x64 are out of luck.
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