Nickname: Amgio

Review: Great concept, great service. I wish Amazon could open up and allow suscribers to get movie trailers. Cobrand the Unbox client and distribute video-blogs to a custom suscriber base on this platform.

Date reviewed: Jan 20, 2007 10:58 AM

Nickname: qka

Review: The comments elsewhere on the web indicate that Unbox simply doesn't work. It takes your money and fails to deliver. Also, as was noted by another reader, it does install all sorts of "phone home" software, that is active even when not viewing Unboxmedia. This turkey is dead on arrival.

Date reviewed: Sep 10, 2006 10:54 PM

Nickname: Viewer1

Review: The download times are the biggest problem. I did the beta test for Reeltime (RLTR.pk) and was able to watch a DVD quality movie with less than a minute wait time. Waiting two to seven hours for Amazon is not something I believe many people will be willing to pay for.

Date reviewed: Sep 9, 2006 8:37 PM

Nickname: Digital Bear

Review: Amazon is reserving the right to do many things on your computer, including pushing commercials to your system, forcing some player updates, and collecting some system specifications. After reading this in the agreement, I aborted the download and will not use the service.

Date reviewed: Sep 9, 2006 3:58 PM

Nickname: MAC to TV via DVI

Review: MAC to TV via DVI "...size of the market that have the capability..." The Mac market is fine. All Mac computers have had DVI for a while now!

Date reviewed: Sep 9, 2006 10:11 AM

Nickname: massimo

Review: I think it is a great idea if it will be possible to rent foreign movies that are hard to find in the US. It would be the global video renting store. I am sure the price will go down since Google is doing something similar, too.

Date reviewed: Sep 9, 2006 1:03 AM

Nickname: Bill

Review: It won't succeed until they allow users to burn a DVD that they can watch in any DVD player. They can limit the number of times a program is burned if they want to, but they need to allow DVD burning. This should be obvious. I am exasperated that the MPAA and the RIAA continue to try to control distribution through digital rights management. They are technically as obsolete as the Ice Man.

Date reviewed: Sep 8, 2006 9:43 PM

Nickname: PC to TV via DVI

Review: "A Windows Media Center PC can be cabled to a TV, but only through a relatively low-resolution S-video line." In that case I must be imagining the DVI-HDMI cable running out of my Windows Media Center PC. I have a far greater imagination than I thought. Seriously though, the problem here isn't displaying the videos, it's the size of the market that have the capability to do so. The fact that a CEO of a company involved in the market doesn't know that this is possible highlights the problem and the opportunities.

Date reviewed: Sep 8, 2006 8:37 PM

Nickname: bruce

Review: On the Amazon story: If you used a neoware thin client with DVI you could connect the appliance computing device to your plasma TV. When might we see an Amazon, AT&T, BellSouth, Google or Cisco-labeled device with this capability?

Date reviewed: Sep 8, 2006 7:13 PM

Nickname: Frank

Review: Although Amazon was required by contract to include digital rights management protection on their files, their client installs the old and vulnerable version of the DRM components. This allows Amazon titles to be unprotected by the FairUse4Wm software, released in August. Thank you, Amazon.

Date reviewed: Sep 8, 2006 4:35 PM