MC 2: MC2 Post 1806 Amazon starts pumping up the Prime Valve

Saturday, February 08, 2014

MC2 Post 1806 Amazon starts pumping up the Prime Valve

Amazon Takes Aim at the Streaming Leader:

NETFLIX

Amazon Prime snags 'Archer' and five more Fox Series,

Launches 10 Free Pilots

The content arms race between streaming-video providers Netflix, Amazon and Hulu (and YouTube/Google Play and Crackle and Redbox) shows no signs of slowing down,

and here's Amazon's latest assault.

The Prime Instant Video Service is pushing new, exclusive,

original content at the same time

it gains access to popular TV shows from a new deal with Fox.

From: http://www.engadget.com

Among them are two hour-long dramas with The After, a show from X-Files creator Chris Carter, and Bosch, a murder-mystery based on the popular detective novels by Michael Connelly that's co-written by The Wire's Eric Overmyer.

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/07/amazon-prime-fox-archer-the-americans-pilot-season/

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2014 Amazon Originals Primetime Pilots -- Sizzle
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Bosch - The Dying Ground
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The After -- But Here I Am
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Google Aims Chromebox at Video Conferencing

Google announced a “Chromebox for Meetings” system based on the Asus Chromebox mini-PC, and HP unveiled its first Chromebox, featuring a Core i7 CPU.

A few days after Asus announced the first Chromebox mini-PC to be introduced the original Samsung Chromebox, HP unveiled its own Chromebox model, which similarly runs on Google’s Linux-based Chrome OS. Meanwhile, Google announced “Chromebox for Meetings,” an enterprise video-conferencing system that initially will be built on the Asus Chromebox, but later this year be available with the HP Chromebox

and an upcoming Dell Chromebox.