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- lucid270, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19BREAKING: lamest use of breaking ever.
Good job pandering for diggs. - Zm3r3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Before you all wet your knickers please read this
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/15/amazon_unbox_to_cust.html
Someone actually read the T's and C's of unboxes agreement - krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -3/+16wait 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. - echosierratwo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I misread the title the first time. I thought I read, "breaking tivo boxes..." I didn't notice the colon. I heard about this this morning on NBC. The ITMS against the world is starting to heat up now baby!
- pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6who said anything about a hard-on? you shouldn't make fun of people with bladder problems.
- cessax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Has already started coming true on the East Cost with Verizon providing the FiOS to some areas in Mass. - the toughest part of this integration is the fact that Comcast has already taken up all these areas with contracts, so Verizon can't get in to lay their lines...shame on those "comcraptic" bastards =(
- HeatVision, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Shouldn't "breaking" be used for important hard news, that stuff CNN stops their regular broadcast and starts covering (i.e. the Boston scare, amber alerts, chemical plant explodes, etc)?
I realize this was used in Gizmodo's headline, but doesn't make it right. - NewChar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Buried for annoying title and lame story.
- Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wouldn't say it's the first single box solution. http://www.homechoice.co.uk have been doing this for years.
- diggumjonez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3buried for just that reason. carefully worded press releases and media packets do not "Breaking News" make.
- YellowJKT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wow. What's with the media blitz of the big movie/tv studios? This is insanity!
How are ISP's gonna keep up with the bandwidth? Everybody say it with me. fios, Fios, FIOS!
Maybe if we all say it three times at once, it will come true. - zeeky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4it's not the first... ever heard of media center computers? it's a full blown computer with a tv tuner card in it plus some tv capture software. so with utorrent and vlc (and beyondTV if you want to pay) its the same thing but more flexable than a tivo.
- tr0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You've got that right. It's way ***** past the point where people can use the word "Breaking" in digg titles at their own discretion.
- mrgreen4242, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The difference is that this media being offered by a huge non-telecom company (Amazon) and being played on your TV by a 3rd party device that isn't associated with your cable or satellite provider (that is it is vendor neutral). This is new, and a pretty big deal. Now we just need Netflix to sign on with TiVo as well and it'll be all over for Blockbuster, as well as the start of some hard times for cable/sat companies.
- XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Since the unbox is direct to TiVo it removes the need for buggy amazon DRM software on the pc.
The details that matter here are simply 1) price, 2) content, and 3) ease of use
1,2 Amazon compares fairly well to the rest of the market (which is overpriced IMHO)
3 TiVo generally does a great job in ease of use.
Sounds like a winner - jimmiem, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Such a hateful, impatient little community ye Diggers be. This is cool news, give the guy a break.
- cgruber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@cessax: Uhm no. The local government decides if they believe it is the best interest of it's residents to allow however many companies to utilize the right of way/easement for providing services. Of course the flip side to this is that it would need to be a financially viable business model for another company to even consider building fiber which by the way runs around $5-10 a foot.
- eppestine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Actually, this is NOT a first. We got a HomeZone unit from ATT in conjunction with Dish before Christmas. It's basically a satellite DVR combined with some internet services. You can download movies as above, store music and pictures (yours), and listen to Launchcast radio.
- Dharmamooch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah!
- XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1TiVo 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... - Allanon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now, if we can only get multiroom viewing with the Tivo series 3 my home media needs will be fulfilled.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7Wet your pants???
A naked model walking by your bedroom - no reaction....
Tivo being able to download movies - a hard on......
See anything wrong with this picture? - jillmatrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I 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.
- ToRoE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can download HD movies through Xbox L!ve. Or you can play HD-DVD movies on the $200 add on. The next add-on for the 360 is IPTV, as soon as bandwidth to the house is viable. IPTV is the future! bring it!
- XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I believe it said you can't multiroom Unbox
- malhtiek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Direct link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/video/tivo/ - superrcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Vaporware...along with the Netflix rental ability that was supposed to come out almost 2 years ago.
- h0dg3s, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Blogspam.
Wish I could mark Lame as well for saying "killer app". - XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seems the Netflix announcement was about a partnership that would allow a service to start some time "next year" (it was 2004 so that would have meant 2005) and Netflix had no existing download services.
This announcement seems to say a limited trial has begun and Unbox has already been in operation for some time.
This looks like it will actually come through. I'd bet the Netflix deal died due to licensing that Amazon seems to have already gotten under control. - joshman5k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I hate it when it is used out of context. This is not one of those times.
- yikiad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1too bad i got tired of tivo to get off there asses and support tivo2go for mac and switched to time warner dvr. now i can just plug in a firewire cable and load or unload what i want...
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Since Tivo software is coming to Comcast Boxes, does that mean Amazon Unboxed is it replace Comcast's On Demand?
- daurkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Since Tivo software is coming to Comcast Boxes, does that mean Amazon Unboxed is it replace Comcast's On Demand?"
Answer is no, if you read more information about this service, it will not be available on DirecTV Tivos or Comcast Tivos. Only the standalone Tivo with broadband. - h0dg3s, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1don't forgot Mythtv and GB-PVR
What's utorrent got to do with building a pvr? That's a bad idea if you're a minimalist and just built it for watching movies.
Not really sure where VLC fits in your picture either unless you're streaming stuff. Winamp's shoutcast has some cool streaming stations though. - stearnsj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0AND TIVO needs to allow users to upgrade their hard drives to 500GB to store all the downloads. I put a 130GB in on my own, but need more if I'm gonna start downloading movies!!
- joaob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"killer app" I freaking hate that term.
- Wildhoney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sounds good
- gadgetboy32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Time to buy tivo shares!!!!! it's only $6.00 dang
- Drizzle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@zeeky -- agree -- there are actually a couple of movie download options in Windows Media Center. I really like what I've seen from the vongo service running on my new Vista Media Center machine.
Plus I can watch tons of RSS-delivered IPTV on my living room plasma screen with TVTonic (including all Revision3 shows).
That said, I'd love to have a TiVo series3. Just waiting for the price drop. - BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@Zm3r3
"""http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/15/amazon_unbox_to_cust.html"""
Ahaha, I didn't realise how pathetic Amazon Unbox is - thanks for pointing that out. :-) - lawnsheep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@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. - tehdude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I can imagine DLing a movie wireless via TiVo through Amazon would take longer than it does for Netflix to mail me a movie; and if I want to watch a TV show that bad, why would I pay $2 for it when I could just have used TiVo in the first place....
- aforsberg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Look, a comment!
- jdc760, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1But in this case "Breaking:" is actually in the title of the article.
- AnotherBrian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Amazon Unboxed, an ironic name as I assume the movies will be thoroughly locked to the Tivo box.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4BREAKING: CONFIRMED!
- donjeep, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0@ Skoles
If you want to build your own PVR that does almost everything Tivo does try Mythtv. http://www.mysettopbox.tv/
At least you don't have to pay the service fee and you can customize the crap out of it. - g1antp15to1, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6save the breaking headline for things that actually deserve to be read as breaking: i.e. things that arent boring or things that actually matter.
- mrdebonair, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Wait till you can download HD-DVD movies from XBOX Live, that would be much more killer than this.
- JackHererUK, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Hmm well my cable box does HD, can record 2 channels while watching a third that you can pause and rewind, stores up to 80 hrs and there are 500 films i can watch on deamand for about the cost of a video rental, plus loads of TV content i can watch on demand for free. It costs me £10 a month on top of the normal cable fee and i don't have to buy the box. I have had this for about a year. But then i don't live in the US so i couldn't get this anyway.
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