Comments on: Tivo and Amazon Unboxed http://www.geeksrus.com/2007/03/16/tivo-and-amazon-unboxed/ We're geeky so you don't have to be Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:39:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: mnb http://www.geeksrus.com/2007/03/16/tivo-and-amazon-unboxed/comment-page-1/#comment-543 mnb Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:40:37 +0000 http://www.geeksrus.com/steve_wp/?p=1017#comment-543 <p>I read the announcement, hit the Amazon site and linked my TiVo account with my Amazon account. Then I browsed the selection and prices. Why I didn't and probably never WILL use Unboxed: 1)I can view up to 6 DVDs from NetFlix in a week. That's 24 a month... For $20/mo. Let's be nice... $1/DVD. But the Amazon price is $14.99. Hmmm. Should I think about this? It's only going to take me 1-3 days to download the file to my Tivo (Series 2, USB 1.0), so I can have a higher quality version by then ... FOR WAY LESS. I don't think so, Amazon/TiVO. I'll pay 4.99 for Just released to Theatre movies and 99 cents for anything on DVD. 49 cents for TV shows. Anything more than that is a ripoff, which is, after all, what the MPAA does best. </p> I read the announcement, hit the Amazon site and linked my TiVo account with my Amazon account. Then I browsed the selection and prices. Why I didn’t and probably never WILL use Unboxed: 1)I can view up to 6 DVDs from NetFlix in a week. That’s 24 a month… For $20/mo. Let’s be nice… $1/DVD. But the Amazon price is $14.99. Hmmm. Should I think about this? It’s only going to take me 1-3 days to download the file to my Tivo (Series 2, USB 1.0), so I can have a higher quality version by then … FOR WAY LESS. I don’t think so, Amazon/TiVO. I’ll pay 4.99 for Just released to Theatre movies and 99 cents for anything on DVD. 49 cents for TV shows. Anything more than that is a ripoff, which is, after all, what the MPAA does best.

]]> By: joslynphilips18 http://www.geeksrus.com/2007/03/16/tivo-and-amazon-unboxed/comment-page-1/#comment-542 joslynphilips18 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:07:55 +0000 http://www.geeksrus.com/steve_wp/?p=1017#comment-542 <p>I tried Unbox last night for the first time. i didn't have as negative a reaction as you did. There are definitely things that need improving -- the 24-hour time limit is pretty terrible. I didn't mind the slow download, because it's as long as it would take anywhere else. (Not their fault.) I had no problem with the web site. </p> <p>Overall, actually, I loved it. Just that short viewing window, which is garbage. All in all though, a solid first step.</p> <p>Shelly Palmer posted a good essay about where all this "cable bypass" Internet TV is headed: <a href="http://advancedmediacommittee.typepad.com/emmyadvancedmedia/2007/01/over_the_top_fi.html" rel="nofollow">http://advancedmediacommittee.typepad.com/emmyadvancedmedia/2007/01/over<em>the</em>top_fi.html</a></p> <p>Joslyn</p> I tried Unbox last night for the first time. i didn’t have as negative a reaction as you did. There are definitely things that need improving — the 24-hour time limit is pretty terrible. I didn’t mind the slow download, because it’s as long as it would take anywhere else. (Not their fault.) I had no problem with the web site.

Overall, actually, I loved it. Just that short viewing window, which is garbage. All in all though, a solid first step.

Shelly Palmer posted a good essay about where all this “cable bypass” Internet TV is headed: http://advancedmediacommittee.typepad.com/emmyadvancedmedia/2007/01/overthetop_fi.html

Joslyn

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