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LoveFilm Becomes Amazon Prime Instant Video In The UK, With £79 Adding A Raft Of Extras

LoveFilm is no more, being rebranded as Amazon Prime Instant Video and being folded into the existing Amazon Prime service. Most...
Dave Parrack
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Amazon Developing Zombieland TV Series | Do We Even Need Television Networks Any More?

Amazon has taken on the episodic version of Zombieland in order to add to its Instant Video lineup. Which further cements...
Dave Parrack
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Amazon Studios Chooses First Four Television Shows For Series Development Slate

Amazon Studios has selected the first four shows it wants to develop further as part of its quest to create original...
Dave Parrack
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Amazon Producing Original Content | Amazon Studios Seeking Show Ideas For Instant Video

Amazon is the latest streaming media company to pledge its desire to begin producing its own original content. I can’t help...
Dave Parrack
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Amazon Adds Viacom To Prime Instant Video But Isn’t Planning Standalone Netflix Rival

Watch out, Netflix, you have (more) competition. And this time it’s in the shape of Amazon. Offering streaming video as part...
Dave Parrack
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Tablets Top For Video Viewing As iPad Beats Android | Amazon Kindle Fire Could Disrupt

Tablets are growing in popularity, and with good reason. The Apple iPad is king right now, but Amazon is ready to...
Dave Parrack
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Netflix Coming To UK and Ireland In 2012 | Going Head-To-Head With Amazon’s Lovefilm

Netflix is coming to the U.K. and Ireland. Finally. But it’ll face tough competition in what has become the gateway to...
Dave Parrack
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YouTube Movie Rentals Arrives In U.K. | New Service Is Competition For Amazon’s LoveFilm

YouTube is now offering its fledgling movie rentals service in the U.K. The content is good, the prices fair. The sky...
Dave Parrack
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New Kindle Fire Tablet Will Do Wonders For Amazon Instant Video And Content Consumption

With the unveiling of its first tablet, the Kindle Fire, Amazon has done more than just deal a serious blow to...
Dave Parrack
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Amazon Adds Fox Content To Amazon Prime Streaming Service As Netflix Rivalry Hots Up

With Netflix still recovering from its recent woes, there is a window of opportunity open and waiting for a serious competitor...
Dave Parrack
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Vudu A Huge Hit For Walmart | Online Movie Store Overtakes Amazon, Playstation Store

Walmart has a huge hit on its hands with Vudu, the online movie store it acquired in 2010. For a company...
Dave Parrack
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Amazon Amongst Rumored Bidders For Hulu As Analyst Argues The Case For Owners Not Selling

The selling of Hulu is ramping up, with bids required to be in by tomorrow (Aug. 24). Speculation as to who...
Dave Parrack
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Amazon Instant Video Boasts Of 100k Streaming Titles But It Can’t Rival Netflix… Just Yet

Amazon Instant Video now boasts 100,000 titles to rent. But that makes it more of a threat to iTunes than Netflix,...
Dave Parrack
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Facebook Now Offers Movie Rentals – Social Networking Site To Challenge Netflix, Amazon

Movie rentals have come to Facebook. As if Mark Zuckerberg needs control of any more sectors of the Web. Still, it’s...
Dave Parrack
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Amazon Confirms Free Streaming Movies For Prime Members – Should Netflix Be Worried?

As predicted last month, Amazon has entered the streaming video business with an offering exclusively to Amazon Prime members. The question...
Dave Parrack
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Amazon Prime Members Gain Free Unlimited Streaming Of 5,000 VOD Movies & TV Shows

Netflix has seen incredible growth in its business over the past couple of years as it evolves from a DVD-by-mail company...
Dave Parrack
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Best Buy Launches CinemaNow Online Video Store Against iTunes, Amazon, Wal-Mart

By the end of May, Best Buy will be offering movies for sale and rental over the Internet under the CinemaNow...
Dave Parrack
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Netflix’ Video Streaming Needs Hollywood On Board | Amazon, Google Eyeing Acquisition?

It may be happening slowly but people are gradually moving away from physical media to digital media. In terms of video,...
Dave Parrack
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Amazon Disc+ On Demand – Free Streaming Movie With Every DVD Could Be The Future

Amazon Disc+ On Demand could be a key weapon in the movie industry’s fight to stop everyone switching from physical to...
Dave Parrack
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ZillionTV Delays Launch | Set-Top Box Service To Battle Apple TV, Netflix, Vudu, & Amazon

The set-top box and over-the-top online video sector is already a very crowded one. There is Apple TV, the Roku box,...
Dave Parrack
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Streaming Movie Rentals On YouTube | Studios Discuss Netflix, Amazon, iTunes Rival

YouTube’s business model is currently based entirely on advertising revenue. But what if the site started offering streaming movie rentals for...
Dave Parrack
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Amazon and Apple Start Online HD Video War

We’re slowly but surely moving towards a high-definition future. Both Apple and Amazon now look to be offering HD downloads, with...
Dave Parrack
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Watch Amazon Movies For Free Using Adobe Security Hole | Preview = Free Download

How do you fancy watching high quality premium movies and episodes of television shows for free on Amazon Video On Demand?...
Dave Parrack
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Watch Free TV and Movies On IMDb | Amazon Owned Website Competes Directly With Hulu

The Internet is now becoming a place where images and video are as important as text content. So IMDb’s attempt to...
Dave Parrack
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Amazon Video On Demand Launches | Online Retailer Streaming Movies & Television Shows

The video-on-demand sector has just got a little more crowded, and this time, it’s due to a big player entering the...
Dave Parrack
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SyncTV | Is It The Viable Alternative To Apple iTunes and Amazon Unbox That We Hoped?

The online television market is growing daily, and new companies are entering the fray regularly, some of which are copycats, and...
Michael Garrett
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The Amazon Kindle | The Success Or Failure Of This Ebook Reader Could Affect IPTV

Although the new Amazon Kindle may not, on first glance, have much to do with IPTV, the technologies involved, and the...
Gilbert Hammer
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NBC Shifts Video Content To Amazon Unbox

NBC recently announced that it has chosen Amazon over the almighty Apple and will be migrating their digital video content to...
Tanya
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Amazon Deal Means Tough Times For NBC On The Web | How Long Until They Beg Apple?

Who came off better and worse in the recent Apple NBC iTunes debacle? The Internet is buzzing with opinions and viewpoints...
Paul Glazowski
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Stripping DRM From BBC iPlayer, Amazon Unbox, Zune, Walmart Downloads

Over at the doom9 forums they are discussing the program Fairuse4WM program that strips any media file that plays on Microsoft’s...
Brent Evans
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