Amazon offers TV and films online
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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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SEATTLE - News that Amazon.com Inc. and TiVo Inc. will soon let customers download movies from the Web to their set-top boxes shook up the stocks of companies involved in digital video services.
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Look ma! No PC! Tivo and Amazon have finally gotten it right. Starting today, TiVo DVR users can download movies from Amazon's Unbox service straight from their television sets - without help from a PC.â¦
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After months of rumors and speculation, Amazon on Thursday officially took the wraps off its video download store, dubbed Unbox. The service offers movies, television shows and other videos, which play in Amazon's own software player as well as on portable devices.
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By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE   Associated Press writer  SEATTLE -- 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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AMAZON.COM has launched a digital video downloading service, ending months of speculation that the internet books, music and DVD seller would move into online TV and movie sales. Amazon Unbox will offer thousands of TV shows, movies and other videos for $1.99 per episode.
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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 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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(InfoWorld) - Owners of Tivo's popular digital video recorders (DVR) will soon be able to download films and television shows for rental and purchase from Amazon.com, the two companies announced Wednesday. "Amazon Unbox on Tivo" is an extension of Amazon Unbox, the online retailer's digital download service, launched in September 2006. Neither company indicated a launch date for the service, except to indicate that it was now available for beta testing. Tivo owners must have a Series 2 or Series 3 DVR, an Amazon.com account, and a broadband connection to use the service. Tivo said about 1.5 million [m] of its machines are enabled to use it. Episodes of television programs will sell for $1.99 each, with films priced between $9.99 and $14.99. Films can be rented for $1.99. A record of all purchases will be kept both on the DVR and in the user's Amazon.com, account, the company said. Amazon said content would be available from film and television studios including CBS, Paramount Pictures, and Warner Bros. Entertainment.
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By DAWN CHMIELEWSKI  Through a deal with TiVo Inc., Amazon.com Inc. is trying to bridge the river-wide gap between the PC and television.   The two companies plan today to announce an alliance that lets some TiVo Inc.
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ABC Television, Amazon.com and a subsidiary, CustomFlix Labs, a DVD manufacturer, are going to make shows from the archives of ABC News available on demand.
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By David Lieberman  NEW YORK-- TiVo and Amazon will unveil today a service that lets customers buy and download movies and TV shows to their TiVo DVR for viewing on their TVs -- one-upping rivals offering such downloads only to computers.
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Blog: Taking another step towards a completely digital movie marketplace, Amazon and TiVo announced the availability of Unbox videos through a TiVo remote.
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IT COULD be the final nail in the coffin of the High Street video shop. Internet giant Amazon today launched a DVD rental service that allows customers to borrow films by post.
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AMAZON changed the face of e-commerce categories like music and videos simply by entering those markets. Now the DVD rental industry is shifting course on just the rumor that Amazon will offer a competing service.
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Online retailer Amazon.co.uk has announced the launch of a DVD rental service. As an incentive to switch to the Amazon service, the company is offering rental members a ten per cent discount on DVD purchases from the site.
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Amazon.com Inc.  launched on  Wednesday a service that lets users watch video purchased on  the Internet and sent to a home television hooked up to a TiVo  set-top box.