Amazon Expanding Access to Downloadable Movies When You Buy a Disc
You could be forgiven if you've never heard of Amazon's Disc+ program. Basically, when you buy select movies on DVD or Blu-ray, you can get a downloadable copy made immediately available to you. The problem was selection. The feature was only available on about 300 movies when it launched last year. Today Amazon has announced a massive expansion of Disc+ to over 10,000 titles.
The process is automatic when a selected movie is purchased. The digital copy appears in the user's Amazon Video On Demand folder. So it isn't a free and clear copy that you can watch anywhere, but there are over 200 Amazon VOD compatible devices out there. Would this sort of feature make you more likely to buy from Amazon?
