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Amazon Instant Video App Now Available For IPads

By TechTaffy Desk

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Amazon.com has launched the Amazon Instant Video App for iPad. Users can stream or download Amazon Instant Video movies and TV episodes from their video library directly on their iPad.

The app also makes more than 20,000 titles from Prime Instant Video available to Prime members, including TV shows like Glee, Downton Abbey and Fringe, or movies such as Mission: Impossible 3, Mean Girls and Ocean’s Eleven, to stream instantly on their iPad at no additional cost.

 

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