The ability to watch Amazon Unbox videos on your TiVo is great however, wouldn’t it be nice if you could browse and purchase Unbox videos directly from within the TiVo interface? Well, thanks to the hard work of Doug Swallow this functionality is now available! Doug recently released a TiVo HME Application known as Unbox On Demand. Unbox On Demand allows you to browse and buy Amazon Unbox content directly from within the TiVo interface!

If you haven’t tried out Unbox On Demand yet, I highly recommend you give it a try. It really does make the whole Unbox on TiVo a lot better (why hasn’t TiVo or Amazon developed this?).

Setup on Windows was extremely easy. All I had to do was make sure that I had java installed and that I configured the applications’ properties file (unboxOnDemand.properties) located in the conf directory. I also setup this app on my Mac however, the run script (run.sh) which is included with the software had a number of problems so I was unable to start the app out of the box. In order to get around this issue, I found a post on TiVo Community, which includes a script that works. For some reason the developer hasn’t updated the download with this script…

Let me know what you think about Unbox On Demand. Do you see yourself using Unbox more now that this app is available?

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