Retail Stars do Video Downloads.
Multichannel News, February, 2007
By Todd Spangler Wal-Mart Sets Trial; Amazon Teams Unbox with TiVo for TV Take note of two more marquee-name Internet-entertainment venues adding the potential to peel subscribers away from cable's video-on-demand services. The new movie- and TV-download services -- both labeled as trials -- come from Wal-Mart Stores, the world's No.
1 retailer, and TiVo through a nonexclusive deal with Amazon.com, one of the world's largest e-commerce outlets. Via "Amazon Unbox on TiVo," the digital video recorder vendor for the first time will sell a la carte video content from the online retailer directly to its subscribers. Prices will be in the same ballpark as the regular Amazon Unbox service, with TV episodes priced at $1.99 and most movies between...
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