Amazon �Unbox� Brings DVD Quality to Video Downloads

Amazon �Unbox� Brings DVD Quality to Video Downloads: "Amazon �Unbox� Brings DVD Quality to Video Downloads

Sep 11, 2006, 11:38


Amazon.com launched Sept. 7 its anticipated digital video download service, named �Unbox,� offering customers thousands of television shows, movies and other video content from more than 30 studio and network partners.

Offering both rental and sell-through models, Unbox, which claims to be the only video download service to offer a DVD-quality picture, seeks to bring PC video downloads to a broader audience than market pioneers like CinemaNow, Guba and Movielink have achieved to date. The service went live just days before Apple Computer�s Sept. 12 opening of its own movie download store for Macs and iPods"