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Amazon Lets You Have It Both Ways
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 10, 2009
Discs are better for collecting, streaming for instant gratification. Wouldn't it be great to get both in one purchase? That's exactly what Amazon is doing with its Disc+ On Demand. The slogan is "Buy Now, Watch Now."
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Amazon May Add Music Streaming to Echo
SV Staff  |  Aug 26, 2016
Amazon is working on a couple ad-free music streaming service, one of which would be exclusive to its wildly popular Echo Bluetooth speaker/personal assistant.

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Amazon Music HD & New Echo Studio Smart Speaker to Support Dolby Atmos-Encoded Music
SV Staff  |  Sep 26, 2019
Dolby has announced that Dolby Atmos-encoded music is now supported on the Amazon Music HD subscription streaming tier announced last week and the $200 Echo Studio smart speaker Amazon plans to ship later this year.
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Amazon Now 3rd Largest Music Streaming Service
SV Staff  |  Dec 14, 2017
Most of us think of Amazon as the world’s largest online store where you can buy anything — and it is, but the company has also become a dark horse in the race toward streaming supremacy as it rapidly expands it Amazon Music service.
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Amazon On-Demand Now in Beta
SV Staff  |  Jul 18, 2008
Who needs Netflix and Blockbuster when Amazon.com is around? Seeming to ditch their Unbox, Amazon.com is launching a new store that will stream movies and television shows directly to your PC and soon, to Sony's Bravia Video Link TVs. Yup. We said...
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Amazon Opens ‘Black Friday Deals’ Store
SV Staff  |  Nov 02, 2017
Let the deals begin. Amazon has announced that its Black Friday Deals Store is now open, marking the official (or unofficial?) start of the holiday shopping season.
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Amazon Out-Streams Apple
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 09, 2010
In the wake of the second-generation Apple TV's introduction, Amazon has one-upped Steve Jobs with a new TV-streaming scheme. Your 99 cents per show will buy not just limited-time streaming rights, but permanent ones. Apple charges 99 cents to rent, Amazon 99 cents to own (for both HD and SD). Amazon's previous price was $2.99.
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Amazon Pop-Up Stores Rethink AV Retailing
SV Staff  |  May 17, 2017
While traditional electronics stores continue to close their doors at an alarming pace, Amazon is well on its way to reaching its goal of opening 100 pop-up stores in malls around the country.
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Amazon Prime Video to Support Dolby Atmos
SV Staff  |  Jul 20, 2018
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan will be the first Amazon video release to carry a Dolby Atmos soundtrack when it becomes available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video August 31.
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Amazon Reportedly Working on Streaming DVR
SV Staff  |  Aug 22, 2018
Amazon is reportedly developing its own streaming digital video recording device that records live TV and streams video to smartphones for later viewing.
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Amazon Reports “Best-Ever” Holiday Sales
SV Staff  |  Dec 30, 2016
The 2016 holiday was Amazon’s best ever led by sales of its Echo and Echo Dot speaker/personal assistant devices. Sales were so brisk, the company had trouble keeping them in stock.
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Amazon Section Promotes Kickstarter Products
SV Staff  |  Aug 12, 2016
Crowdfunding is one of the 21st Century’s great innovations (it actually started late in the 20th Century…we know), providing a way for anyone to take a shot at funding their Next Big Thing product.
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Amazon Starts Streaming in Dolby Vision Today
SV Staff  |  Jun 27, 2016
Starting today, Amazon Video is streaming TV shows and movies encoded in the Dolby Vision high dynamic range (HDR) format, according to Dolby Labs and Amazon.
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Amazon taking pre-orders for Samsung's BD-C6900 3D Blu-ray player UPDATED
SV Staff  |  Jan 28, 2010
 If you're ready to embrace the 3D freight train that was unleashed at CES 2010, Amazon is ready to take orders for Samsung's upcoming 3D BD player, the BD-C6900. It seems you'll have to part with $400 of your cash if you want to...
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Amazon to Offer Monthly Prime Video Option
SV Staff  |  Apr 18, 2016
Amazon is dropping the requirement that you have to sign up for a year to access its Prime membership services and taking aim at Netflix by adding a subscription option that will offer Prime Video as a standalone service at $8.99 a month, according to a CNN Money report.
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