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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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