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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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  1. Anonymous Coward
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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.

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  2. slitcanvas

    didn't they just...

    .....buy lovefilm?

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  3. Simon Barnes

    disjunction ?

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

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  4. Fuzz

    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.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
    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.

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    1. Bassey
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      Re: Amazon VOD

      Both NetFlix and the Amazon VOD are US only.

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