Amazon Unbox

Amazon announces Unbox, their movie/TV-show download service. I’m guessing it’s not a coincidence that this came out just a few days ahead of Apple’s “Showtime” special event next week. The whole Unbox thing is based on Windows Media DRM, so it isn’t going to work on Macs or iPods.

See also: Additional coverage at the Business 2.0 Blog.

★ Friday, 8 September 2006