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The news comes from a posting on the Amazon Prime site by the online retail company’s CEO Jeff Bezos. Here’s what he says:
I have big news for Amazon Prime members – we’ve just signed a deal with FOX to add a broad selection of movies and TV shows to our unlimited instant streaming service later this fall. The new additions from the FOX library include 24, Arrested Development, The X-Files, Ally McBeal, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and – available on digital video for the first time – The Wonder Years. We now have deals with CBS, NBCUniversal, Sony, and Warner Bros, and adding FOX will bring the total to more than 11,000 movies and TV shows available for unlimited instant streaming.
Since launching earlier this year, we have now doubled the number of titles available in Prime instant videos, and there’s still more to come. Prime membership remains $79 a year, and of course features our unlimited free two-day shipping on millions of products. Prime is one of the best values anywhere.
Prime instant videos can be played on more than 300 HDTVs, Blu-ray players, and set-top boxes.
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Is this deal exclusive — can Fox license the same movies/TV shows again to other companies (netflix/google) in the same window or not?
I’m confused (nothing new there). Is there a window between theatrical to streaming that is longer than theatrical to pay-TV. Or is streaming now reckoned to be worth more than traditional pay-TV deals? Or have I just totally misunderstood the Fox and DWA deals with Amazon and Netflix?
Well, that it for me….I’m through with Amazon (and Google). The only way for the common man to escape corporate serfdom in America is to stop supporting their profit machines. There’s rich, and then there’s “filthy rich.” Bad move, Amazon.
After seeing how it treats its workers Amazon needs a hell of a lot more than a few movies to get me to ever use it again.
As a prime member, this is music to my ears.
Bring on the Fringe and Prison Break reruns.
Once again the Hollywood Entertainment Brokers are entering into this new era of broadcast/streaming with blinders on. By scattering their licensing deals all over the board, they are completely ignoring the paying public whose entertainment budgets are already spread too thin to subscribe to it all… Netflix/subscription – HuluPlus/Subscription -
AmazonPrime/Subscription – DishBlockbuster/Subscription – Epix/Subscription… Subscription! Subscription! Subscription! And, speaking of the DishBlockbuster streaming announcement for Dish customers only, they had a real chance to knock it out of the park against Netflix and the others and win the big game, but they chose to lay down a bunt instead! — They’re going to kill the golden goose before it’s even out of the nest! Executive thinking at its worst!
Amazon and Kindle Desktop Publishing has been the greatest thing that’s happened to my career in twenty years. I interact directly with my reading audience, sell more books than ever before and had a film producer contact me. And I love Amazon Prime.