Engadget offered screenshots yesterday of Prime members who were noticing "Prime Instant Videos", unlimited streaming on select movies for those who join Prime. It includes the note: "Your Amazon Prime membership now includes unlimited, commercial free instant streaming of 5,000 movies and TV shows at no additional cost.
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Downstreaming: Is Amazon Set to add a Subscription Service?
Downstreaming: The State of Internet Video on Demand
Last week, TNL.net did some analysis of how the top streaming video services were doing in terms of the most popular video entertainment of 2010. They compared Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Video-on-Demand, and iTunes.
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Downstreaming: A Month of Netflix Streaming
Image via Wikipedia Netflix has been around so long that people might be surprised it took us until now to discuss it, or that we’d never tried it, and we still have yet to try their more traditional DVD by mail product. Netflix is an obvious choice for someone looking to downsize their monthly...
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Downstreaming: Case Studies in Cord Cutting
This week, well-known blogger and co-founder of both Gizmodo and Engadget, Peter Rojas, announced he'd finally pulled the plug and cancelled his cable TV service. Rojas will be using a Mac Mini with a Silicondust HDHomerun, plus EyeTV, Boxee, Hulu, Netflix, and Kylo.
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H264 vs WebM comes to a Head
Last week, the Chromium blog announced that it was terminating support for the H.264 video standard in the HTML5 video tag in favor of the open WebM and Theora codecs, neither of which have seriously taken off yet.
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Downstreaming: The Future of Bypassing the Cable Box
Last month, one of the things that went up on our cable bill was the rental of our cable box. It now costs over $14 a month to rent a cable box. Can it cost more than a year or two's worth of rental fees to actually buy a box? Yet cable box manufacturers...
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New Video Capture Devices for your HTPC this Season
Image by Geek Tonic via Flickr Two interesting new video capture devices came out from Hauppauge over the past week. The first is an internal version of Hauppauge’s popular HD-PVR. This new PCI-E card will eliminte the need for a large external enclosure and power supply. The new device will cost $159. The HD-PVR...
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Has Boxee Sold Out?
We're big fans of Boxee here. We don't use it on a daily basis(partly because of the issues with using it under Fedora Linux). We've been at every Boxee New York City event, we've annoyed their CEO.
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Downstreaming: The Roku Box
Last week, Roku announced they served their one billionth stream of content after announcing they'd sold one million units. We first started talking about the Roku box two years ago when it was for Netflix only. Since then, Roku has unveiled countless channels...some good, some useless...well, to us at least.
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Downstreaming: Amazon Video on Demand
Amazon Video on Demand, formerly known as Amazon Unbox, is Amazon's video streaming service. It is not subscription based. It is an ala-carte video service that offers both rental and purchase. You can also purchase passes to TV shows and receive a discount.
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