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Amazon Unbox - Free Anime Eps...But |
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Written by Scott
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Saturday, 19 January 2008 |
 As a promotional tool, Amazon's Unbox
digital video service is offering first episodes of a select series of anime titles for free. You can directly download first episodes of Afro Samurai, Astro Boy, Basilisk, Bleach, Death Note, Naruto, Samurai7, and Street Fighter II V. Of course you have to enter credit card information even for free episodes (we aren't exactly clear as to why ourselves). You also have to use Amazon's Unbox player or your totally out of luck too. As a further incentive they are offering quite significant discounts on full seasons of some titles, most being a little more than $30.
On the surface of it, this is a practical steal when compared to DVD box sets. However, keep in mind that Amazon's Unbox service is infected with copious amounts of Digital Rights Managment. The DRM basically means your watching this on an XP or Vista box, a Tivo (certain models of Tivo are directly supported), or nothing.
Though we don't expect Amazon itself to go anywhere anytime soon, there have been several debacle's recently where retailers got out of DRM laden downloads which left their customers out in the cold for license renewals. Buy in if you want to take the risk that someday your purchase will evaporate into nothingness. Back to the drawing board Amazon, I'll get my anime elsewhere.
source...AnimeNewsNetwork
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 19 January 2008 )
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