Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Technology marches on - rent movies with your remote

TiVo, Amazon to sell movies straight to TV sets - Yahoo! News:
"TiVo upgraded the 'Amazon Unbox on TiVo' service to allow customers with high-speed Internet connections to select one of about 10,000 movies, shows or other video, using the TiVo remote control.

The programs, priced on average at about $4 for a movie rental and about $2 for a television show, will be viewable after it downloads to the TiVo set-top box.

Amazon and TiVo first announced the service in February, and at that time required users to select the video on a PC."

Those of us without TiVo will just have to settle for old fashioned movie rentals - oh well, that 3 block walk to Blockbuster might do us some good.

BTW - does it seem to you that their price for a TV show is excessive compared to the price for a movie?

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