Thursday, March 3, 2011

Did Amazon Just Save Over the Top Video With Prime and E-Books?

No. But Amazon?s (AMZN) new prime streaming program did keep the slim prospect of Over The Top Video impacting traditional TV?s business on life support.

Netflix (NFLX) will be the first to tell you that streaming video is a complement to TV. You might even call it a compliment to traditional TV. There isn?t much of anything on Netflix that hasn?t been on TV first. Brian Roberts was right when he said that what people today call Netflix content, everyone used to just call re-runs. That isn?t a knock on Netflix, we all love it for what it is. The worlds best DVD library at our fingertips. But that doesn?t change the fact that everything was on TV.

There is a reason why its all re-runs. No one in the online world has the balls to take the risks on new


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