TiVo Users Can Get Amazon Movies From TV
According to this article, TiVo is going to release a new feature which will allow you to order Amazon Unbox
ALVISO, Calif. (AP) — Users of TiVo Inc.’s digital video recorders will be able to order movies from Amazon.com Inc. directly from their TVs starting Tuesday.
The two companies partnered in March to deliver Amazon’s Unbox download service to TiVo machines, but the feature required customers to place their orders on a computer through Amazon’s Web site.
Now, PC intervention won’t be needed. The new “Buy on TV” feature allows TiVo users to search Amazon’s video catalog and rent or purchase titles using their TiVo’s remote control.
The feature works for owners of TiVo Series2 and Series3 broadband-connected DVRs.
The new feature is the latest example of how companies — including Microsoft Corp., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Apple Inc. — are trying to find ways to deliver online videos to customers’ living rooms.
In conjunction with the new feature, TiVo developed a safeguard so users would have to punch in a five-digit password to complete the transaction, said Jim Denney, TiVo’s vice president of product marketing.
“We wanted to avoid the baby sitter scenario where you come home to find a bunch of movies on your TiVo that you didn’t order,” he said.
July 10th, 2007 at 7:14 am |
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July 10th, 2007 at 11:15 pm |
I got the email from Amazon directly, since I had download several movies from them already.
The service was there, under “Find Programs”. It’s lumped in with the TiVoCast subscriptions.
It only has a bunch of top 10 categories listed, not as comprehensive as the UnBox On Demand HME.
July 11th, 2007 at 5:32 pm |
Tom - the ‘Download Movies & TV Shows’ app is limited, but you can use ‘Universal Swivel Search’ and search for shows, and if it finds a match in Unbox you can download directly from within USS too.
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