gizmodo.com — Amazon and TiVo just made me wet my pants with what could be a killer app in the digital video distribution arms race: TiVo Series 3 and 2 set top boxes will be living room conduits for Amazon's Unbox IP video on demand service. This is the first single box solution that intermingles downloadable broadband video and traditional TV in one place.
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krinthekuzFeb 7, 2007
wait lets get this straight.tivo3 is the first tivo to actually add commercials. amazon unbox is the video downloading service that received embarrassingly horrible reviews for having horribly buggy software, requiring all playing to be done in a proprietary media player, and actually charged MORE for a crappy DRM download than the actual DVD.what makes you think that combining these is "BREAKING!" news, and how does this really make you "wet your pants"?everyone do us all a favor and mark this as lame or spam... doesn't matter really.
ebfoxbatFeb 7, 2007
Since Tivo software is coming to Comcast Boxes, does that mean Amazon Unboxed is it replace Comcast's On Demand?
lawnsheepFeb 7, 2007
@cessax:FiOS is available for some of the Philly suburbs. My parents are Comcast subscribers, but the Verizon folks were out digging up some of the permafrost the other day, we have a nifty tan/beige Verizon branded box out in the front yard, and I should be lapping up the bandwidth any day now.
dharmamoochFeb 7, 2007
Yeah!
jillmatrixFeb 7, 2007
I don't like what BoingBoing found in the agreement, but if the software is only crawling around in my TiVo, which has no promise of any privacy, anyway ... I don't really care. I wouldn't buy movies this way, but I'd rent the occasional one to supplement my Netflix subscription. Cheaper than my PPV, and there are no rental stores near me since someone mismanaged a string of Blockbuster franchises (that previously killed off all the mom and pops) and they all closed.
xstaticFeb 7, 2007
TiVo has been delivering content, even a movie or two via IP for several years. The first is an agreement with a content provider....Also it looks like Unbox lets you delete and the redownload later so no need to upgrade your drive to save all your programs...
superrcatFeb 7, 2007
Vaporware...along with the Netflix rental ability that was supposed to come out almost 2 years ago.