Amazon Joins the Online Pay-Per-Download Party

Adding another shot to the bullseye of existing online movie download sites - CinemaNow, MovieLink, and Guba - Amazon announced it's flavor, curiously called Unbox.

The Digital Video Download Service includes films from seven studios (minus the Disney owned crew which are holding out for Apple's pending announcement) including some recent box office winners: 16 Blocks, V for Vendetta, The Matrix, Walk the Line, and Brokeback Mountain.

Unbox also has TV shows from the major broadcast and cable networks such as 24, C.S.I., and the PBS current affairs show, NOW with David Brancaccio among many others. Star Trek debuts with Unbox as well, but THR can't imagine Kirk won't be flying the iTunes galaxy sometime soon.