Comments on: Amazon Announces Video Service You May Actually Want to Use http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080717/amazon-announces-video-service-you-may-actually-want-to-use/ by John Paczkowski Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:24:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Is the Pay Per Download Model Dead? | Josh Chandler's Blog http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080717/amazon-announces-video-service-you-may-actually-want-to-use/comment-page-1/#comment-3070 Is the Pay Per Download Model Dead? | Josh Chandler's Blog Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:44:40 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=2794#comment-3070 [...] Digital Digital wrote an article today discussing how Amazon Unbox is reverting a streaming video service instead of a pay per download method, it seems although this model hasn’t worked for Amazon it is still working for the likes of iTunes with their music, music video and game downloads. But the one thing I want to find out is whether video has a different model to audio and if the pay per download model is dead! [...] [...] Digital Digital wrote an article today discussing how Amazon Unbox is reverting a streaming video service instead of a pay per download method, it seems although this model hasn’t worked for Amazon it is still working for the likes of iTunes with their music, music video and game downloads. But the one thing I want to find out is whether video has a different model to audio and if the pay per download model is dead! [...]

]]> By: Brian Hayashi http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080717/amazon-announces-video-service-you-may-actually-want-to-use/comment-page-1/#comment-1466 Brian Hayashi Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:28:36 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=2794#comment-1466 Simple is the way to go. Syndication models will be in. The studios will let Amazon build its own window, provided this window doesn't jeopardize other, more lucrative windows. And if Amazon succeeds beyond everyone's wildest dreams; well, then Amazon's influence in this space will grow. I've blogged about the need for simpe, disruptive innovation like this for video at http://connectme.typepad.com/news/2005/08/mobile_telephon.html ...note this was way before the iPhone came out; I show an early mockup of what we thought the iPhone would look like. Simple is the way to go.

Syndication models will be in. The studios will let Amazon build its own window, provided this window doesn’t jeopardize other, more lucrative windows. And if Amazon succeeds beyond everyone’s wildest dreams; well, then Amazon’s influence in this space will grow.

I’ve blogged about the need for simpe, disruptive innovation like this for video at
http://connectme.typepad.com/n.....ephon.html

…note this was way before the iPhone came out; I show an early mockup of what we thought the iPhone would look like.

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