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Rumors of Amazon either purchasing Netflix or launching a competing
option have been circling and now one of our readers says he's seeing
an unlimited video streaming section to complement the current Amazon
VOD options. That's a nice bonus for the $79 / year package that
currently adds a few free shipping bonuses and it would be cheaper on
a yearly basis than Netflix's Watch Instantly ($95.88.) As seen above
and in the gallery, it consists of "unlimited, commercial-free,
instant streaming of 5,000 movies and TV shows" with selections that
mirror the Watch Instantly catalog closely. Resolution is apparently
limited to a "pretty solid" 480p SD, but there's no word on audio or
subtitle options. We'll wait to hear if anyone else is seeing a
similar page before assuming a wide rollout, but it certainly appears
that there could finally be a viable competitor to the Netflix
juggernaut.
Update: We weren't able to pull up the option on any of our Prime-
enabled accounts and from the comments it doesn't appear any of you
were either. According to our tipster, the option has disappeared from
his page as well. One other interesting note came from commenter vfiz,
who found that several variations of the primeinstantvideos.com domain
namewere registered by Amazon-owned DPReview January 5.
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