Program Digitizes and Unlocks the World's Video Media
- Apr 24, 2006 09:00 AM (BusinessWire)
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2006--Leading online retailer
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and CustomFlix Labs, Inc., a wholly
owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., today announced the introduction
of the Media Gateway program, a worldwide initiative to digitize and
sell previously unavailable video content on Amazon.com. At the heart
of the Media Gateway program is the CustomFlix Future-Proof
Archive(TM) service, a secure storage and reformatting platform
designed to provide content owners the flexibility to repurpose
content into multiple future digital formats. The Future-Proof Archive
service currently supports DVD-Video, with additional formats to be
announced.
The Media Gateway program enables content owners to unlock the
hundreds of thousands of hours of content trapped in analog tape
formats making it immediately available for sale as physical DVDs, and
enabling the content for future inventory-free digital formats. For a
limited time, CustomFlix will offer digitization and DVD authoring of
qualified content with no up-front investment by the content provider.
Amazon.com will then make this content available for sale to tens of
millions of Amazon customers and CustomFlix will manufacture DVDs on
demand as customers place orders.
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Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com)