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Amazon Unbox Video Store Launches

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the online-box-offices dept.

andrewl6097 writes "Amazon.com has launched it's Amazon Unbox video store. Looks like about 1300 movies and 350 tv series, at $9.99 and up for movies and $1.99 per TV episode. Downloads come with a DVD quality version and a version more appropriate for portable players (using Windows DRM). Also, videos can be re-downloaded from your Amazon media library. Cool!"

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  1. Great deal? by sm62704 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lets see, I can wait three hours for the movie to download and pay ten bucks for it, I can drive to Walmart and buy the physical media for the same price (some movies only $5), or I can rent the DVD for $2.

    I just bought some books from Amazon, very reasonably priced. Thuis isn't. I won't be using it, but there are a lot of stupid people with money or iTunes would have tanked immediately.

    It seems businesspeople these days count on the stupidity of their customers.

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    mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest