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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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Amazon TVs on the Way, Sony and LG Win TV Shootout
Bob Ankosko  |  Sep 16, 2021
The world’s largest online retailer just keeps getting bigger and is now seeking to expand its stake in one of America’s favorite pastimes: watching TV.
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Amazon Upgrades Alexa Digital Assistant
SV Staff  |  Jun 29, 2016
Amazon has introduced new ways to discover and enable skills for Alexa, the digital assistant that made a name for itself as the voice interface for the popular Echo Bluetooth speaker.
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Amazon Ups Audio Quality with Amazon Music HD
SV Staff  |  Sep 17, 2019
Amazon Music today launched a new lossless streaming tier called Amazon Music HD dedicated to delivering a higher quality streaming experience.
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Amazon Video on Demand Makes Debut
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 21, 2008
Amazon introduced a new Video on Demand store last week, one of two initiatives aimed at supplying online video to consumers, supplementing the hard-copy formats that are the basis of Amazon's huge mail-order business.
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Amazon VOD for Sony's BRAVIA Link
SV Staff  |  Aug 27, 2008
A reader of engadgetHD noticed that Amazon.com is running a beta version of their video-on-demand services for Sony's BRAVIA Internet Video Link. The Link is an add-on module for Sony's BRAVIA TVs that connects to the Internet. According to the...
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Amazon VOD Now Available on Mac and PC
SV Staff  |  Sep 04, 2008
Amazon has boxed up Unbox and just announced that starting immediately, Mac and PC customers can instantly watch movies on either a Mac or PC with Amazon Video On Demand. Using the old Unbox app, material had to be downloaded first, to either a PC...
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