Amazon Prepping Streaming Video Service: What's Wrong with Unbox?

The latest announcement to come from the All Things D conference is that Amazon will be launching a streaming video service in the upcoming weeks, according to Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com.

The details were kind of scant regarding the formal upcoming Amazon announcement, but the facts confirmed is that the payment will be ala carte and it will stream immediately, meaning there will be no wait for the movie to download completely or partially before starting.

Doesn't Amazon Already Offer Streaming Vid Service: Unbox?

If you recall, Amazon launched its Unbox video rental service last year that works independently or with a TiVo. The big difference here is that the Unbox requires the movie to television show to download in its entirety before being watched and the streaming service doesn't. Depending on the connection, but downloading an entire movie can take hours, which isn't acceptable for the spontaneous media junkies that don't want to wait to watch a movie.

This announcement is just one of many that came from the All Things D conference. Is All Things D the new CES?

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