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Downloadable Movies from Amazon?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the glimpse-of-the-future dept.

StrongGlad writes "Screenshots of what could be an Amazon.com video store in the making surfaced Friday on the Web. Alan Taylor, who claims to have worked for the online retailer more than two years ago, said he discovered the screenshots while poking around an area of Amazon.com used by developers. The screenshots can be seen on Kokogiak.com. The pictures show a service called 'Unbox Video' that offers first time users a free TV show or $1.99 off the first movie they download. Instructions are given for downloading the player and buying movies and video that can be played on a PC, TV or portable media player. Amazon.com has declined to comment."

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  1. Link from Screenshot by kju · · Score: 2, Informative

    The screenshot shows this URL: http://www.amazon.com/gp/video/help/faq.html. It seems that this URL actually exists, because it gives 200 OK and a 48 byte response.

  2. Related news .. by sunsrin · · Score: 2, Informative

    on DownloadSquad - here

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  3. Re:Great.. by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2, Informative

    DivX and XviD are both names for encoders, and both are implementations of MPEG-4 Part 2 (IIRC). The new compression format is H.264 (also known as MPEG-4 Part 10, or AVC. This delivers considerably higher quality than DivX/XviD at the same data rate and is designed to scale from mobile 'phones to HDTV.

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  4. Re:DRM :( by moonbender · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's already supported in all the important media players, including open-source implementations. There is no DRM in H.264.

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