By Ben Patterson : Yahoo! Tech (CLICK to read more)"The giant online retailer is clearly looking to boost sagging DVD sales with its new 'Disc+ On Demand' program, which lets you instantly watch selected purchased movies over Amazon's Video on Demand service. It's a tempting offer for movie lovers like me, but as usual, there's a catch (or two).
So here's the scoop (courtesy of NewTeeVee): If you buy a movie (and/or TV show) from this list of 300-odd titles, Amazon will immediate add the Video on Demand version of the movie to your Amazon digital locker for instant viewing over the Web, TiVo, or any other TV set-top box that supports Amazon Video on Demand.
The titles include both DVD and Blu-ray discs, ranging from new fare such as 'Land of the Lost,' 'Funny People,' and 'Bruno' (sorry, no 'Star Trek' or 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince') to old favorites like 'Goodfellas,' 'Cool Hand Luke,' '2001,' and 'North by Northwest.'
That's kind of a cool deal; indeed, I'd been meaning to pick up the Blu-ray of 'Silence of the Lambs' to replace my old, non-anamorphic DVD from Criterion, and hey ... $9.99 for the 'Lambs' Blu-ray, plus a streaming copy in my Amazon digital locker? I was seriously considering it this morning.
But, as I said, there are a couple of catches involved."
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