Amazon’s Unbox video download service “now available” on TiVo

By Thomas Ricker | March 7, 2007

Usually when a vendor says available “later this year,” they deliver in December, not the following month. So excuse our surprise to find Amazon’s Unbox video download service “Now Available!” to any broadband connected Series2 or Series3 TiVo. That’s right, after a brief pilot kicked off in February, TiVo subscribers can now register their box with Amazon and get $15 worth of free movies and TV shows in the process. Not all Unbox content is available for download — only about 1,376 titles are tagged for TiVo download as of this posting. We presume that’s due to the need to transcode titles into a TiVo-playable format and not the result of some nefarious meddling by the studios. TV shows cost $1.99 per episode while most movies can be purchased for between $9.99 and $14.99 — movies rentals start at $1.99 although most are listed for either $2.99 or $3.99. If you already own a TiVo then this is about as easy as movie downloading can get.

[Via TiVo Lovers]

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