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.
About the best thing to be said about Amazon Unbox, the mediocre, odiously restrictive, video download service the retailer launched last year, is that it was … er … Windows-only, I guess. Which, obviously isn’t saying much.
Hulu.com, a site that aims to be a legal, one-stop shop for streaming of TV shows and movies, is far better than the typical network or studio Web site. But the site’s offerings lack depth.
TiVo has a few tricks up its sleeve that might surprise longtime users and new owners alike. This column includes just a handful of those tricks and highlights some features that may make TiVo more useful.
It appears there may be a bit of a boxing match shaping up between Apple and Netflix. Amid reports that Apple has inked a video-on-demand deal with Twentieth Century Fox, Netflix has announced plans to develop a set-top box that will give consumers the ability to stream movies directly from the Internet to HDTVs. The [...]
Movie download service Vudu likes to think of itself as the instant-gratification alternative to running to the video store. But the device, which plugs into your TV and Internet connection, has a poor movie selection and slow downloads.
If NBC Universal is going to win concessions from Apple in its dispute over the pricing of television shows on iTunes, it’s going to have to do a bit better than spitefully peddling episodes of its new fall television shows on Amazon’s Unbox. Just days after announcing it would not renew its contract with Apple’s [...]