Amazon To Open New TV and Movie Store

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Amazon To Open New [reuters.com]TV and Movie Store

Web retailer Amazon.com Inc will introduce a new online store of TV shows and movies on Thursday, called Amazon Video on Demand, The New York Times said.

Customers of Amazon's new store will be able to start watching any of 40,000 movies and television programs immediately after ordering them because they stream, just like programs on a cable video-on-demand service, the paper said.

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My experience has been Amazon S3 has been very positive. Download speeds are fast and consistent -- perfect for streaming.

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Unless it works on an STB, it will never reach critical mass. By STB i mean a cheap box that allows full control over a remote ;)

With Netflix Roku player for 99 and Microsoft's recent announcement of build in Netflix queue player as well as its growing publishing network amazon is going to be hard pressed to compete but it sounds like they just want to go wal-mart on the movie industry and hope for the best.