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Is Amazon Rethinking Its Movie Download Service?

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It's been a year-and-a-half since Amazon launched Unbox, its movie download service that competes with Netflix and iTunes. Amazon has a partnership with TiVo to allow people to download movies straight to their TV set-top boxes. But Unbox doesn't appear to have really made a dent in Amazon's business yet. The service did not even warrant a mention in last quarter's earnings announcement. Maybe that is why Amazon is noodling over what it can add to Unbox to make it a hit.

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Amazon hasn't really made a mark in the download of movies so they probably should be thinking things over.

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Reply#1 - Tue Mar 4, 2008 8:52 AM EST
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