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Not Impressed with Amazon Unbox / Tivo Download

Amazon Unbox + Tivo = Lame

Last week Molly and I “rented” our first movie from Amazon’s Unbox that connects to most networked Tivo.

We gave it an overall review of lame.

Yes we were able to “rent” a movie from our couch and have it get pushed to our TV, but it took 6 hours to download before it could even start, and if you don’t finish it within 24 of starting it, it’s deleted from your Tivo.

I could have walked to the video store and back in 1/6 of the time it took to get the movie and hung on to it for 3x the time for the same $3.99 fee

The 24hr limit is insulting. If I’m the kind of superdork that hacks Tivos, burns copies and post to torrents, do I need 48 hours to do? No. maybe 48 minutes. So why cramp my customer experience if i want to watch a movie over a couple days, when you’re not protecting yourself any better???

Rather than Unbox, Amazon should have called this service HalfBaked Your first mover position here is going to be fast forgotten.

2 Responses to “Not Impressed with Amazon Unbox / Tivo Download” »»

  1. Comment by Alex | 09/30/07 at 3:39 am

    24 hours isn’t enough time especially if you have a family. My wife and I can hardly ever sit down for a two hour period and watch a movie straight through. This is the main reason why I don’t rent more content from Unbox.

  2. Comment by martoon | 10/28/07 at 6:40 am

    Haha the graphic for LAME is genius.

    I dont have TV as I live in the UK but I do have SKY+ which I think is pretty much the same. Recently there has been allot of channels who have been uploading the regular shows like soaps and docu’s up to the websites as downloads which is pretty good. I know in america ABC and stuff have been doing that for a while… so this comment is kinda pointles - just wanted to fill it up rather than JUST appreciating the ‘lame’ graffix.

    TC.

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