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Adobe`s Photoshop Elements and Premiere and other video programs on display at a Best Buy store in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. (AP)
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One Web site -- www.tvadfree.com -- explains step-by-step how to use the video stream catching software.
Amazon.com's Adobe-powered Video On Demand service allows viewers to watch the first two minutes of a movie or TV show for free. It charges up to $3.99 to rent a movie for 24 hours and up to $14.99 to download a movie permanently.
Amazon starts to stream the entire movie during the free preview -- even though it pauses the video on the Web browser after the first two minutes -- so that users can start watching the rest of the video right away once they pay.
"It's the traditional trade-off, convenience on the one hand and security on the other," said Ray Valdes, analyst at research group Gartner.
However, even if a user doesn't pay, the stream still sends the movie to the video catching software, but not the browser.
Amazon's Video On Demand is the Web retailer's answer to declining sales of packaged movies and TV shows and the growth in demand for digital content that can be viewed and stored on the Internet.
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