Tivo + Amazon Movie Download
TiVo and Amazon will unveil Wednesday a service that lets customers buy and download movies and TV shows to their TiVo DVR for viewing on their TVs — one-upping rivals offering such downloads only to computers except Microsoft Xbox360 MarketPlace.
The companies say they will test “Amazon Unbox on TiVo” in a few hundred homes for an undisclosed period. Then they will offer it to any of the 600,000 TiVo subscribers who have their DVR connected to a broadband home network.
“We’re taking this world of digital video content that is now available via broadband to PC users and putting it smack in the middle of the living room to make it a comfortable television viewing experience,” says TiVo CEO Tom Rogers.
Major movies studios including Disney seem …More after the jump!to go along with this offering.
Amazon offers downloads of recent movies for about $14.99 and episodes of TV shows for $1.99. Those prices are slightly higher than Wal-Mart’s new download service: For example, Superman Returns costs $14.88 there.
How the service will work: TiVo users will go to Amazon.com to sign up and designate where they want movies and TV shows they buy to be sent. Unbox will send purchases to two TiVos, two Windows PCs or one of each. The PC then can load the video on up to two portable devices using Windows copy protection (no iPods). Buyers can burn DVD copies for backup, but they won’t play in a DVD player. The Unbox service also keeps a record of purchases and will send backup copies if needed.
Macintosh users won’t be able to put Unbox films on their Mac, but can download them to their TiVos.
Carr says it will take about an hour to download a typical movie with high-speed Internet service.
Thank you Martin for the news!
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