Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Amazon expands Kindle Fire X-Ray service to TV shows

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Alongside its introduction of the Kindle Fire HD late last summer, Amazon also introduced X-Ray for movies, a software feature that taps into IMDB to pull in background information on whatever film you happened to be watching. The company positioned it as a quick way to find out exactly who was in a movie and other films they had been in — it also offered a quick way to add those movies to your queue. Now, Amazon has expanded the service to work with TV shows as well as movies — it's still powered by IMDB and should work in the same way as the existing X-Ray for movies feature. Amazon says that right now, X-Ray will work with the "most popular TV shows" the company offers, with a fast expansion planned to cover more and more content.


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