Amazon Takes 'Cautious Toe-Touch' Into Video Streaming
All Things Digital, Tuesday, February 22, 2011 2:47 PM
And speaking of Netflix, as we were in the item above, it shouldn't face any serious competition from Amazon's new video streaming service. Available today for free to anyone who paid the $79 for Amazon's prime delivery service, the video subscription so far provides only 5,000 movies and TV shows -- "and almost none of them are mainstream favorites," writes All Things Digital's Peter Kafka.
Consider Amazon's move "a cautious toe-touch into Web video subscriptions," definitely not a Netflix-killer, he says.
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Consider Amazon's move "a cautious toe-touch into Web video subscriptions," definitely not a Netflix-killer, he says.
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79$ month subscribe ? O_o