Amazon premieres movie downloads
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Beats Apple to the chase Online retailer Amazon has launched a new download service for movies and TV shows, pre-empting the expected launch of a similar service by Apple this week.â¦
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SAN FRANCISCO - Amazon.com Inc. , the world's largest Internet retailer, began a digital-music download service to compete with Apple Inc.'s iTunes, selling restriction-free tracks from more than 20,000 record labels.
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Amazon.com Inc. launched a digital video downloading service Thursday, ending months of speculation that the Internet retailer would be getting into the online TV and movie business.
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Subscribers to the digital video recorder service now have direct access to movies and TV shows from Amazon.com's Unbox download service.
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Amazon.com AMZN.O on Thursday   unveiled a widely anticipated Internet service offering movies   and television shows that can be downloaded onto consumers'   personal computers.
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Amazon, the biggest online retailer, starts a TV and film download service in the US called Unbox.
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Amazon.com adds an online video hit to its downloadable arsenal.
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Amazon.com Inc., the world&#39;s biggest Internet retailer, began offering a DVD-rental service in the UK that will probably increase traffic on its site and could compete with Netflix Inc.
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Amazon.com Inc. will let customers buy or rent movies and television shows and download them directly to some TiVo Inc. digital video recorders.
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(InfoWorld) - Amazon.com unveiled the Unbox Video Store on Thursday, a direct rival to Apple's iTunes 24-7 video store, which allows U.S. users to buy or rent TV shows, movies and other video content from the Internet. Amazon Unbox is offering thousands of DVD-quality videos from over 30 movie and TV studios, which can be stored on up to two PCs and two portable video players at once, the company said. When a user downloads a movie or show, Unbox automatically sends a second download file optimized for Windows Media-compatible portable devices. It also keeps track of media purchases on a personal page at Amazon's Your Media Library, and acts as a backup, allowing users to download video purchases onto an additional PC. Unbox is one of many new services aimed at capturing the growing interest in downloading video from the Internet. The service will compete with similar video download stores such as Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes, and is a direct threat to traditional DVD services from companies such as Blockbuster Inc. and Netflix Inc. Users interested in trying Unbox can go toÂ http://www.amazon.com/unbox. Amazon Unbox is offering a $1.99 rebate on a user's first purchase, enough for one free TV show. But new users will have to enter their credit card information into the system first as part of the registration process, and then download the Amazon Unbox Video Player software. Unbox is charging between $7.99 and $14.99 for most movies, and rentals of the latest movies for $3.99. Videos can also be sent as a gift. The company's Unbox RemoteLoad technology enables users to buy video from one PC, such as their home computer, and download it to another, Amazon said. Apple Computer OS users can not shop at Unbox. The service only works on Microsoft's Windows XP. Users with older PCs may also find it difficult to meet Unbox's hardware requirements. At minimum, a PC needs a 1.5GHz microprocessor and 512MB of memory, such as DRAM (dynamic RAM), in addition to a DirectX compliant video (64MB) and sound card. Users must also have an Internet connection capable of sustained 800Kbps data transfer rates, Amazon said. Unbox is offering a host of special offers to attract new users. From Sept. 14 through Sept. 27, for example, all of the final, cliffhanger episodes from last season's "CSI," including Las Vegas, Miami and New York, will be on sale for just $0.01, to promote the launch of the new season for all three series. The company is also offering all 79 episodes of the original "Star Trek" series, including the original pilot. Some of the movies available on Unbox include "Inside Man," "Failure to Launch," "Walk the Line," and "V is for Vendetta," as well as classics such as "Ben Hur," and "Poseidon Adventure." Some of the major movie studios signed on with Unbox include Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. Entertainment.
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Money man spreads wild rumor Yes, Amazon already has an online on-demand movie service, but that wonât stop the worldâs most famous web retailer from buying NetFlix, the movies-through-the-mail company that recently built an on-demand service of its own. At least, thatâs what the Associated Press is reporting.â¦
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Amazon.com Inc launched an early  version of its highly anticipated digital music download store,  which is seen as a potential rival to Apple Inc&#39;s dominant  iTunes system.
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Amazon.com has launched a public beta trial of its much-anticipatedÂ music download service.
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Amazon (AMZN) finally launched its long-awaited online video service on Sept. 7. But it's no sure thing that it will catch on with the masses. The service, called Amazon Unbox, offers downloads of movies and television shows, as well as digital movie rentals.
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Amazon.com and TiVo Inc. have joined to let U.S. TiVo subscribers download movies and TV shows from the Internet and watch them on TV, the companies said.
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Amazon.com Inc. will begin selling high-definition independent films in the HD DVD format through its on-demand DVD printing service, the company said late Sunday.
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TiVo said it has introduced a service to let customers buy movies and television shows from the Unbox service of Amazon.com without using a personal computer.