Sony and Amazon team up to deliver video everywhere

[fairytale00]

Los Angeles (CA) - As part of its "video everywhere" strategy, Sony plans to marry Internet-equipped Bravia HDTVs with Amazon's new video-on-demand service to fight off increasing pressure from set-top box vendors. It is another try to convince consumers of the benefits of video-on-demand (VoD). No matter how you look at it, VoD looks like a matter of time and the days of your local video store may be counted. Even the recently more and more visible video kiosks may be sailing into an uncertain future.

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[SingSing]

Most of us have watched too many movies already.

[dadrab]

Most of us have watched too many movies already.

Probably true.

Still, my whole thing with all this VOD, streaming, blah, blah is that I want to watch when I want to watch, where I want to watch. I'm limited with streaming and VOD. Not so with physical media. I've got DVD players or game boxes that play DVDs everywhere I've got a TV.

My kids' game room (also my computer room) has a nice large TV that's got a PS2 connected to it. Games? Yep. DVDs? Yep. Cable? Nope. I don't want it there. So, the kids and their friends can go watch a movie or play video games, but for the former, a disc is required. I like it that way. No dialing in movies they don't need to watch when my wife and I aren't around.

The whole notion of "buy it and you have 24-48 hours to watch it" stuff really gripes my ass.

Just sell me a disc and I'll watch it in my own good time. Or I'll NOT watch it in my own good time. It's my disc and I'll do with it as I please and I don't owe a studio or a cable company anything else.

[Relayerman]

The VoD is not a bad concept and my TiVo, to a degree, has freed up my viewing habits to alarge extent. Sure, I might have to wait until a TV episode is broadcast, but I don't care because I know that I can watch it any time and day i please after its broadcast.

I have a friend of mine who got rid of his cable and uses his computer to access the TV network websites and watches the HD versions of their streaming content on his HD TV. He managed to watch the whole 3 seasons of Lost over a 2-month period because every episode that was broadcast was available on the website. Thats not a bad option.