Amazon & Tivo In Talks About Movie Downloads
From paidContent.org:
Amazon and Tivo are in discussions about creating a new feature that would automatically copy films downloaded online through Amazon’s Unbox service onto Tivo sets. The New York Post reports this as an aggressive move by Amazon in response to Apple’s iTunes move downloads.
This makes sense. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has been wondering why no one is partnering with TiVo for something like this. Everyone is coming out with a video downloading service because we all know it’s the next big thing. Except no one seems to be ready to allow someone to easily watch it on his/her TV, which is of course exactly where we all want to watch it.
TiVo already has that “last mile” relationship. It’s a natural fit. Of course, not everyone has a TiVo but it’s certainly a larger group of people than the video downloading fans at this point.
