6 posts and columns on Amazon Video on Demand

News Byte

J.P. Morgan on Amazon's DVD-VOD Combos: Netflix Has Nothing to Fear

in News on November 2, 2010 at 1:02 pm PT

Amazon’s move today to expand its Disc+ On Demand offerings to 10,000 titles may help with the instant-gratification demographic, but the benefit to the company will likely be incremental, according to the collective wisdom of J.P. Morgan’s analysts. The appeal of the combo deal–which gives a DVD buyer immediate access to the movie online via Amazon Video on Demand–will be limited by Amazon’s relatively small footprint in the living room, the analysts said. And, they noted, “A single DVD purchase under the program costs, in most cases, more than a month-long Netflix subscription,” which offers thousands of titles for streaming.

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Google Enters Content Partnerships for Google TV

in News on October 4, 2010 at 11:25 am PT

Google Inc. on Monday unveiled several new partnerships with media and Web companies, including NBC Universal Inc. and Amazon Inc., to provide content for Google TV, a service designed to expand the Internet giant’s franchise into the living room. The company, in a blog post, promised “a new world of apps available for TV,” including NBC’s CNBC Real-Time, an application that will allow Google TV users to track stocks and access news alongside business-news channel CNBC’s live broadcasts.

New Amazon Service Streams TV Shows And Films to PCs

in Personal Technology on September 10, 2008 at 6:08 pm PT

Amazon Video on Demand is a good service for people who prefer paying for ad-free TV shows and films.
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A Streaming Comes Across the Sky

in News on September 4, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Amazon Announces Video Service You May Actually Want to Use, Redux

in News on September 4, 2008 at 8:36 am PT

Apple’s iTunes movie store just got its first legitimate rival: Amazon Video on Demand. Launched Wednesday night, it replaces Amazon Unbox, the mediocre, odiously restrictive, Windows-only download service the retailer launched last year.