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Amazon fiddling with film streaming service, says report

Online retail giant Amazon is reportedly working on a film streaming service. According to the Financial Times (behind paywall), which cites a source familiar with the company's plans, the bookseller is prepping such a streaming service to be tied up with its Amazon Prime scheme. Just last month Amazon confirmed it was buying …

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Hope existing Lovefilm accounts get switched over

This would be cool - streaming films to the TV works pretty well now with my current LoveFilm account, but it would be nice to save the cost and merge it into the Amazon prime.

disjunction ?

I can't see any synergy between fast package delivery and internet streaming!

didn't they just...

.....buy lovefilm?

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Make it decent quality

Must have 5.1 sound

choice of streaming rates with at least a 3Mbps rate

720p and 1080p options I know streaming 1080p is pretty hard with current Internet but just queue playback. I order a film and in an hour it's ready to play.

Do all or most of this and I'm first on the list.

WTF?

Amazon VOD

Haven't they had this for a while? I'm an avid user of Amazon's Video on Demand service. Way better than NetFlex. Or is it a US only thing? I don't get it.

Re: Amazon VOD

Both NetFlix and the Amazon VOD are US only.

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