This past Saturday, Engadget.com posted several screenshots of an Amazon page offering free unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows and it stated “Your Amazon Prime membership now includes unlimited, commercial-free instant streaming of 5,000 movies and tv shows at no additional cost.”

Now this has not been setup yet, but seems someone didn’t realize this page was visible yet. Shortly after being reported, the person who found the page could no longer access the page, but by then the screenshots were already taken and the leak was out.

This is big news as Amazon.com tries to dive into some of Netflix’s market. By offering this streaming service to Prime members you really get two advantages. One being that as a Prime member you receive free 2 day shipping on any Amazon product you buy. The cost for Prime membership is only $79 a year. Naturally, if you shop alot with amazon then this can really pay off. Now with the streaming movies and TV this is an added benefit to the membership.

Amazon stands at making a profit with an influx of people trying this out and that they would be able to turn profit into further increasing the movie selection. As it stands though Amazon will hit the market with 5,000 movies and TV shows. Netflix is estimated at 20,000 selections, but Netflix had to slowly increase their inventory. So on day 1 with 25% of Netflix’s inventory, that isn’t too bad.  Personally I think Amazon may be hipper with newer selections unlike Netflix where most of the streaming movies are older….which is also why alot of people complain about Netflix.

So pretty big news, what do you guys think about it? Will you be joining?

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