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TiVo, Amazon offer video downloads

Wow, looks like the long-running "Amazon Unbox downloads on your TiVo" rumor is true. The LA Times is reporting an unspecified number of TiVo customers will start testing the service Wednesday.

It's perfect timing, with the AppleTV/iTunes store integration coming out this month and Wal-Mart launching movie downloads today. A lot more people have TiVos already and are likely to be Amazon users, so this seems like a natural fit. No word on video quality, file size, or download times, but I hope to see this rolled out to all TiVo customers soon. [thanks wendell!]

update: here's TiVo's official site for it.

by Matt Haughey February 6, 2007 in News

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The Amazon.com FAQ says:
"Unbox videos watched on a TiVo will be of better quality than videos recorded at the Best Quality setting on a TiVo Series2 DVR"

Since the unbox downloads are advertised as DVD-quality on Amazon's site I think this basically means 480p.
I'm not complaining but since the Xbox offers 720p I hope Tivo/Unbox get at least 720p soon.

Posted by: Wendell at Feb 7, 2007 2:30:22 PM

That is nice ting and quality is also good.
http://caraudiotuning.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Dado at Feb 19, 2007 11:39:49 AM

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