Amazon, TiVo to test movie downloads direct to TVs
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Amazon.com Inc. and TiVo Inc. will begin testing on Wednesday a service that lets users watch videos rented or bought over the Internet directly on televisions, as part of a trend to link personal computers and TVs.
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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 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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DVD rental company Netflix and LG Electronics said today they're working on a set-top box that can stream movies over the Internet directly to a TV set.
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Amazon.com announced to today that they have launched their DVD Rentals service for its UK customers. The service offers to plans right now.
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Amazon.com launched a video download 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 on Thursday unveiled a  widely anticipated Internet service offering movies and TV  shows that can be downloaded to personal computers, moving it  into a nascent and higher-margin business.
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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.
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Amazon and TiVo said they were launching a service to deliver films and television shows bought or rented online directly to television sets.
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The UK website of Amazon.com is launching a DVD rental service, the online retailer&#39;s first foray into a market pioneered by US- based Netflix.
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The DVR pioneer now offers direct access to Amazon's Unbox service.
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Digital downloads direct to the living room US TiVo users will soon be able to download films direct to their TiVo box for viewing on their TV, using the Amazon Unbox service.â¦
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By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 18--Hollywood is sending in the A-team -- Amazon and Apple -- on a  kind of mission impossible: persuade consumers to download movies online,  instead of buying or renting DVDs.   This might be the technology of the future.
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WASHINGTON  - Online DVD renter Netflix Inc.  and television recorder maker TiVo Inc.  are close to a deal to allow Netflix subscribers to download movies over the Internet to their TiVo devices, according to the latest issue of Newsweek magazine.
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By CURT WOODWARD  SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. and TiVo Inc. have jumped into the digital download wars - with a twist. The new partners will beam movies and TV shows directly to their customers' living rooms.
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LG Electronics and Netflix will work to develop a set-top box that can stream movies over the Internet directly onto a television screen, the companies announced Thursday.Netflix, best known for its mail-order DVD rental service, began offering a&#160;video-on-demand service&#160;for impatient movie buffs last year. That service, though, only plays movies on a PC, and with 6,000 titles available for download offers a more limited selection than the 90,000 Netflix offers by mail.The new streaming service will allow customers to watch on a high-definition television, using a networked set-top box that LG plans to ship later this year, the companies said.While Netflix seems keen to invest more in download services, other players are pulling out. U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart Stores closed down its video download service last month, less than a year after introducing it.Wal-Mart used Windows Media Player to wrap its video files in a DRM (digital rights management) layer so that they will only play on the PC to which they were downloaded, or on certain portable media players. Now that the service is closed, customers cannot move their videos to a new PC, according to the service&#39;s Web site.Macrovision, a software developer specializing in DRM systems, is also hoping to play a role in the market for downloads direct to the television screen. Movie download service CinemaNow will use Macrovision&#39;s DRM to prevent copying of its content downloaded directly to set-top boxes or digital television sets, the companies announced Thursday.
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Netflix Inc. and TiVo Inc. made official Thursday their deal to create a service that will use high-speed Internet connections to pipe DVD-quality movies into the homes of their mutual subscribers.