Engadget has posted screenshots this weekend of Amazon's upcoming subscription streaming service, one that should directly rival Netflix.
The service will offer free, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows to Amazon Prime members.
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"Your Amazon Prime membership now includes unlimited, commerical-free instant streaming of 5,000 movies and TV shows at ... [ read the full article ]
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I still think netflix is going to win this one. Can you get Amazon videos on your 360, PS3, or Wii? Can you get it through blu-ray players or TVs? Can you get it on your phone? I can use netflix on all of those things. It's going to be hard to incorporate all of those things for use with Amazon when Netflix already has it.
Also I thought I saw a thing on the news the other day where they were talking about going to streaming only, which would save them 300 million dollars a year on shipping costs. It'd be nice to get all the movies they have.
Originally posted by ffocus06: I still think netflix is going to win this one. Can you get Amazon videos on your 360, PS3, or Wii? Can you get it through blu-ray players or TVs? Can you get it on your phone? I can use netflix on all of those things. It's going to be hard to incorporate all of those things for use with Amazon when Netflix already has it.
Also I thought I saw a thing on the news the other day where they were talking about going to streaming only, which would save them 300 million dollars a year on shipping costs. It'd be nice to get all the movies they have.
I can't dispute............Netflix has the market and truly rocks. It's just pretty cool that Amazon will allow FREE use of this for us Prime members that are taking classes.
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Originally posted by ffocus06: I still think netflix is going to win this one. Can you get Amazon videos on your 360, PS3, or Wii? Can you get it through blu-ray players or TVs? Can you get it on your phone? I can use netflix on all of those things. It's going to be hard to incorporate all of those things for use with Amazon when Netflix already has it.
Also I thought I saw a thing on the news the other day where they were talking about going to streaming only, which would save them 300 million dollars a year on shipping costs. It'd be nice to get all the movies they have.
I could agree with almost everything there, except the phone...those bastards refuse to release an Android app.
As for the $300,000,000 savings...don't forget that people pay for those services, and they pay more than they would for streaming only. Realistically, it would be a loss, at least at current shipping prices.
Originally posted by ffocus06: I still think netflix is going to win this one. Can you get Amazon videos on your 360, PS3, or Wii? Can you get it through blu-ray players or TVs? Can you get it on your phone? I can use netflix on all of those things. It's going to be hard to incorporate all of those things for use with Amazon when Netflix already has it.
Also I thought I saw a thing on the news the other day where they were talking about going to streaming only, which would save them 300 million dollars a year on shipping costs. It'd be nice to get all the movies they have.
I could agree with almost everything there, except the phone...those bastards refuse to release an Android app.
As for the $300,000,000 savings...don't forget that people pay for those services, and they pay more than they would for streaming only. Realistically, it would be a loss, at least at current shipping prices.
If you factor in just the cost of one stamp, shipping might seem cheap...but if you add the cost of manufacturing the packaging, the manpower to pack/sort/ship/receive, cost of discs and replacements needed because damage/loss...then I can see how that would get rather costly...
