Gunpowder Chronicle posted on November 4, 2007 9:22 PM | Rating:
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I recently started trying out the new Amazon Unbox service in conjunction with my much-beloved TiVO.
Unbox is a neat service which allows you download videos to your TiVO or your PC at a very low cost. From a rental perspective, the price isn't as good as what you would get with Netflix or Blockbuster. But from a purchase standpoint, it's pretty good.
The one downside, though, is that the downloads aren't "immediate". Depending on the speed of your connection, it could take some time to download the video to your system. Because of the bizzarre way that TiVO has to encode video for display, it's pretty much a 1:1 download. A one-hour show will take you at least an hour to download.
But that is the only drawback I have seen so far, other than the limited library.
Give it a try... I am sure you will like it.