Not Impressed with Amazon Unbox / Tivo Download
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.
