AOL Uses Amazon for Video Sales

AOL on Friday scrapped its year-old pay-for-download service in favor of Web retailer Amazon.com Inc.'s technology for selling movies and TV shows online.

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If you enjoy buying music from iTunes, movies from Amazon.com's Unbox, or computer software from anywhere, be warned: the halcyon days of tax-free digital purchases may be over.

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SAN FRANCISCO — In a significant step toward vanquishing the local video store and keeping couch potatoes planted firmly in front of their televisions and computers, Amazon.com will introduce a new online store of TV shows and movies on Thursday, called Amazon Video on Demand.C …

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The New York Times is reporting that Amazon is scrapping its Unbox service in favor of a new online TV and movie store called Amazon Video on Demand.

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It's been a year-and-a-half since Amazon launched Unbox, its movie download service that competes with Netflix and iTunes. Amazon has a partnership with TiVo to allow people to download movies straight to their TV set-top boxes.

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The position is for a full-time software development engineer to join the "Software and Video Games Digital Technology team," who are working on the Amazon Software Download store.

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There's been a definite trend towards service integration at TiVo lately, with quite a string of partnerships to show for it: the company's gotten in bed with Music Choice, Picasa / Photobucket and Nero in the past couple weeks, not to mention the finally-happening Comcast rollou …

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NBC's recent withdraw from the iTunes store leaves the millions of users of Apple iPods without a legitimate way to purchase and watch NBC's content.

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It has been my theory for a little while that sometime in the near future, we are going to see the downfall of physical discs for watching movies. A lot of companies are moving towards a downloadable model.

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MGM to distribute low-budget comedy from Stargate Atlantis star David Hewlett directly to online ddistribution before putting it in a DVD box.

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Amazon Unbox disregards federal laws pertaining to equal access for deaf and hard of hearing consumers. Downloadable videos to TiVo do not include captions or subtitles for those with hearing loss.

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Many TiVo owners can now begin renting and purchasing movie downloads via Amazon Unbox, as the two companies have flipped the switch on their new partnership.

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Although online video is often free to consumers—just think of YouTube or CBS's Innertube service—it still makes big advertising dollars.

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Shares of digital video recording pioneer TiVo Inc. gained in premarket trading Friday on a report it is in discussions with Amazon.com Inc. to create a feature that would allow consumers to automatically transfer downloaded movies to their set-top boxes.

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From the article:Reports are coming out that Walmart is gearing up to offer movie downloads in the coming months.

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A look at the new movie download services offered by Amazon and Apple and how they match up against DVD.

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Online shopping giant Amazon.com has launched a digital TV and film download service in the US called Amazon Unbox. Backed by top Hollywood studios and TV channels, including Warner Brothers and CBS, Amazon Unbox will offer programmes and films direct to users' computers.

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Amazon releases their online movie and tv video download service. $3 for most older movies, $2 for most TV shows. Very competitive prices compared to Blockbuster, plus nothing to return! Keep it for 30 days. Competes with services like vongo.com

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