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Amazon: Video On Demand

September 24th, 2008 jimcarter

A few days ago Amazon.com launched their new VOD service.  It’s quite nice and a quick to par competitor for iTunes.  Lets say you missed the Pilot episode to Fringe and wanted to see what the hype is about.  They offer a semi-fullscreen browser 2 minute preview (quality hot swappable based on your bandwidth) and you can watch/buy it in the same screen for continuous viewing.

Seems amazon only offers standard def 640×480 video for now (on my 20M FIOS line the best streaming I could get was at 480p) however it still looks quite good and the stream comes through fantastic.  I havn’t yet found an HD option, so for now iTunes still takes the win with the $1 HD upgrade proce @ $2.99 if you’re so inclined to buy an episode.

As for their movie purchase/watch on demand, the selection seems decent.  Yet on average $12-$14 for a digital download is still quite annoying, especially not in High Definition. Oh well, I give it time to see how Amazon VOD pans out.  I have quite a bit respect for how they rose their game on their music service.  These days I’ll buy from Amazon MP3 before before I would from iTunes for the simple NO-DRM policy.  Since every track I buy off iTunes I still burn to CD-RW, re-rip, apply artwork and strip DRM for safe keeping, this is much more convenient and works just as quick.  I’m a fan of simplicity, and amazon has always done that with finesse in my book.

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Hello From Amazon

June 27th, 2008 jimcarter

Hello from Amazon.com.

 

We are writing about the order you placed on February 13 2008 14:14 PST (Order# 102-5213470-4785846). The item(s) listed below will actually ship sooner than we originally expected:

 

Jay Louis (Author) “Hot Chicks with Douchebags” [Paperback]

   Estimated arrival date: 07/02/2008

 

You can only guess my surprise to get an email from Amazon this morning telling me that I’ll get the HCWDB book earlier than thought.

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Sometimes Amazon Gets it Wrong

April 18th, 2008 jimcarter

Sometimes Amazon gets it wrong too.  Makes me feel a little more human.

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Amazon Music Store == Pain In The AAC

October 8th, 2007 jimcarter

AmazonWhat’s a website without a music store today? Nothing much at all.. especially when you’re a power player like Amazon. But where’s the fun in just allowing people to download good ‘ole non-protected tracks that they may be able to actually do something with.. like play for a friend or heaven forbid, transmit somewhere like another computer? That’s what I thought.. to the lawyers that would be just way too easy.

Last week Amazon announced their new music store, awesome right? Well of course. That is until you get someone to read the fine legal print to see what you are actually able to do with your digital gem.

Amazon’s contract says you “may copy, store, transfer and burn the Digital Content” for personal use. But then it goes further and specifies restrictions, saying you “agree that you will not redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, sub-license or otherwise transfer or use the Digital Content.”

Amazing aeh? Makes you just want to rush to their site and spend all your money on some music you cant do anything but play on the computer you download them to in a set of headphones. That is of course just incase a friend might hear what you bought which could be construed as “broadcasting” or “sharing”.

Nothing says go back to illegal then some fine print on your hard earned dollar.

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