Web developer Alan Taylor has used some creative thinking and the power of Google to unearth what appears to be a series of pages from Amazon.com’s forthcoming video download service – Amazon Unbox. Amazon announced in late July that they would begin offering video downloads in mid August. The company said that the service would be called Amazon Digital Video, would be subscription driven and would use a desktop client.
Now the unearthed pages indicate that the service will be called Amazon Unbox. Taylor found a main page and pages for Twentieth Century Fox, the Sci-Fi genre (see also this discovered page titled Lumier Digital Video) and a page for downloading the desktop player. The player is sparse looking but includes a tab labeled “devices,” downloaded videos will be viewable on PCs, TVs and portable devices. It will be very interesting to see how the portable devices play turns out.
TV shows will be offered for $1.99 per episode, DVD movies for between $9.99 and $14.99.
While you’re checking out Alan Taylor’s page, see also his del.icio.us linkbacks bookmarklet – long one of my favorites.
Did you notice the “Devices” tab in the player? Does that mean they are going to use Plays For Sure or did they team up with some manufacturer to have a player. This would be so much better than just a software…
Maybe they’ll take on PornoTube
Nice find, I’ll be interested to see what formats you can download in, aside from the amazon video download and if we’ll be able to use the files on our IPODs/other portable video playing gadgets (even though it says portable devices I’ll wait to see:))
I went to the Amazon Video link that was mentioned but obviously, the link had been taken down by then
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Now the Video landscape has opened up indeed. Who is next? – EBay?
– Thyaga
If there’s no renting, it’s DOA.
People need to realize that media is shifting and any person that enters into this arena and can garner the support as well as make some deals for content will make money. I think this will have to be a non renting venture as DRM may be a hassle. Pricing will dictate success. At leat in my humble opinion.
Interesting that the system requirements for the player (2nd pic) show it is Windows only. Mac-heads: pounce… now.
Looks pretty ugly (I wonder why they don’t hire a grapghic artists or someone from the desktop customization world to make a skin for it).
But will it work? (I wonder if what program they used to make this player? DeskopX?)
Plays For Sure is the best choice for them, so it will play on hundreds of different devices and work with viiv and live.
All these video services are identical to Movilelink and CinemaNow (except Amazon apparently won’t offer rentals, making it a non-starter; this isn’t music, folks). However ML and CN have three fatal flaws: 1) Windows only, 2) terrible selection and 3) far too short, 24 hour viewing window. The DRM works fine and is appropriate.
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