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Amazon MP3 Store

October 4, 2007 – 4:53 am

There was a lot of hype when Amazon began selling MP3 song downloads. Some even used the dreaded “iTunes Store Killer” phrase.
There’s certainly a lot to like about the Amazon MP3 store from a features point of view:

Un-DRM’d MP3 music downloads.
256kbps encoding. (Actually it’s Variable Bit Rate encoding)
Lower cost - $8.99 for top 100 albums [...]

Popularity: 8% [?]

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Amazon Unbox on Tivo

April 8, 2007 – 2:54 am

Amazon Unbox became available via Tivo about a month ago. When Amazon Unbox was originally unveiled I barely noticed. It was another DRM encumbered video download service. There was a bunch of DRM related rules and I’d have to deal with yet another single-purpose video player and it’s DRM implementation.
But now it’s available on Tivo [...]

Popularity: 8% [?]

By ray | Posted in Quick Bits | Also tagged | Comments (0)