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Amazon Wants Your Old CDs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 22, 2013  | 
Amazon has added Compact Discs to an existing trade-in program that already embraces Blu-ray, DVD, games, books, and electronics. There are two categories: Like New, for unscratched discs with original packaging and artwork in mint condition; and Good, for playable discs with light scratches and other disc or packaging blemishes. Send your stuff to Amazon, with free shipping, and a virtual gift card will be credited to your account. Trade-in lucre might be anything from $1.40 for Adele’s 21 to $5.30 for the Special Edition of Jethro Tull’s Thick as a Brick 2 to $35 for the 13-disc Rolling Stones box set. Of course, some people like having physical media in their libraries, and others may want to keep their audio-codec options open for future reconversions. But if you really hate all that plastic—so much that you want it gone now—here’s your chance to get rid of it and get paid. Amazon will gladly let you consume the credit as new downloads. Search eligible items on amazon.com.
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Amazon Will Stream Thursday Night Football Games
SV Staff  |  Apr 05, 2017  | 
Amazon has signed a one-year deal with the NFL to live-stream 10 Thursday Night Football games but you will have to be an Amazon Prime members to access the streams.
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Amazon's TiVo/Samsung Sale
SV Staff  |  Dec 25, 2008  | 
Did Santa bring you everything you wanted? Need to fill in a few blank spots on your wish list? Just in time, Amazon is playing an elf.  From now until December 29th, get $150 off the price of a TiVo HD DVR when you purchase one of seven...
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Amazon.com Adds Video Sales
Barry Willis  |  Nov 21, 1998  | 

The world's "number one book and CD retailer" is now in the movie business. Last week, <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/">Amazon.com</A> officially launched its video-sales division, offering more than 60,000 titles on video tape and more than 2000 on DVD. Prices are discounted 25-30% from the suggested list price.

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Amazon.com on TiVo -- More Than Just Downloads
SV Staff  |  Jul 22, 2008  | 
Couch potatoes rejoice! Seems like just days ago we reported that Amazon.com was going to let you purchase movies downloaded through your TV system. Not a stretch, but opening a whole new world of opportunities, Amazon and TiVo just made an...
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Amazon.com Swallows Internet Movie Database
Barry Willis  |  May 10, 1998  | 

Merger news: <A HREF="http://www.IMDb.com">IMDb</A> to <A HREF="http://amazon.com">Amazon.com</A>. If this sounds like a chess move, it certainly is for a few folks at the top of the Web's food chain. On April 27, the Internet Movie Database became part of Amazon.com, the world's largest online bookseller.

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Amazon.com's Big Mistake
SV Staff  |  Sep 08, 2008  | 
Last Saturday, an Amazon retailer was listing quite a few TVs at prices that were unreal. Turns out that, in fact, they were unreal. The online retailer, My Office Source normally sells, as you might guess, office equipment. But on Saturday,...
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Amazon.com's Blu-ray Sale
SV Staff  |  Dec 10, 2008  | 
Go - NOW!  Amazon.com is having a Blu-ray sale! From now until midnight (pst) December 17th, get three Blu-ray discs for the price of two. Not every Blu-ray in stock, but almost every disc. (They have a total of 201 Blu-ray movies for sale,...
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Amazon: Alexa One-Touch Routines Now Include Music
SV Staff  |  Apr 09, 2018  | 
Artificial intelligence continues creeping into our daily lives as the popularity of smart speakers and smart-home automation devices continues to grow.
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Amazon’s Cup Runneth Over
SV Staff  |  Aug 19, 2016  | 
Amazon’s retail dominance, video distribution, and voice control—among other things—have been in the news lately.

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Amazon’s Share of Smart Speakers Projected to Drop in 2019
SV Staff  |  Dec 31, 2018  | 
The popularity of voice-assisted smart speakers will continue in 2019 but the balance of power will begin to shift as Amazon’s leading two-thirds (66.6%) market share declines to just over 63%, while Google’s inches up from 29.5% to 31%, according to the latest forecast from the market research firm eMarketer.
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AMC Plans for 100 Dolby Cinema Theaters
SV Staff  |  Aug 11, 2016  | 
Dolby Cinema theaters equipped with the latest video and surround sound technologies have been so successful that Dolby Labs and AMC Theatres have announced an accelerated schedule to complete 100 new installations by the end of 2017, seven years ahead of the original plan.
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AMC Upsizes Moviehouse Seating
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 25, 2014  | 
Desperate to reverse declining movie attendance, the AMC theater chain plans to install reclining seats in 1,800 of its 5,000 theaters. The seats are so big that they had to remove up to two-thirds of seating capacity, leaving some theaters with as few as 70 seats. But attendance has shot up 80 percent in the renovated moviehouses, with box-office revenue rising 60 percent, and that may save theaters that were already losing money.
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AMD ATI Theater HD 750 pulls down TV anywhere
SV Staff  |  Jun 02, 2009  | 
Slingbox is great for getting content when you're a world away from your precious DVR, but it's not always easy to find the required bandwidth. AMD's newly announced ATI Theater HD 750 can grab HDTV/DTV/analog broadcast signals...
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America Online and Blockbuster Get Cozier
Barry Willis  |  Feb 20, 2000  | 

Welcome to <I>Mating Dance of the Giants</I>, brought to you by <A HREF="http://www.aol.com/">America Online</A> and <A HREF="http://www.blockbuster.com/">Blockbuster Video</A>. The world's largest Internet service provider (soon to be AOL Time Warner) and the world's largest video sales-and-rental chain are expanding the symbiotic relationship begun a few months ago. The two behemoths announced February 17 that their multi-year alliance will grow in several directions, all of them intended to cement their already unshakable grip on the marketplace.

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