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Buy From Amazon With Your TiVo
PunkOfLinux writes "From The NYTimes comes news that TiVo and Amazon have reached an agreement to allow consumers to purchase products from Amazon through their television sets using their TiVo remote control. TiVo will launch the new service to consumers by merchandising products related to several high-profile programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Colbert Report, and Burn Notice. Broadband-connected Series2, Series3, and TiVo HD DVRs will be able to take advantage of the new feature." This sounds like the latest incarnation of the dream of television executives who in the early '90s talked about the "information superhighway," before it was clear that the Internet was going to fill that role. What they envisioned was "interactive TV," i.e. buying stuff with your remote.
TiVo will launch the new service to consumers by merchandising products related to several high-profile programs
Yogurt: Moichandising! Moichandising! Moichandising! Where the real money from the movie is made! Spaceballs: the T-shirt, Spaceballs: the Coloring Book, Spaceballs: the Lunchbox, Spaceballs: the Breakfast Cereal. Spaceballs: the Flame Thrower... [fires a short blast from flame thrower]
Dinks: Oooooohhhh!
Yogurt: The kids love this one. And last, but not least, Spaceballs: the Doll, me.
"May the Schwartz be with you!"
Yogurt: Adorable.
Developers: We can use your help.
I'm pretty sure they are talking about buying things other than music and movies.
Yeah, like if you like how the killer used the reciprocating saw to dismember the body on CSI:, buy it now with a ThumbsUp on your TiVo remote.
I'm not shitting you: one of the CSI shows had product placement of a reciprocating saw as a dismemberment tool, first shown prominently in the episode (matching blade marks to bone), then the exact same model was advertised during a commercial break.
I won't like it if it means pop-ups during the show. And I own 8 TiVos (7 subscribed).
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
You can buy stuff online, from online stores via devices that give you online access!!!1!
Ave Molech Setting
I just got a tivo a month ago based on everyone's rave reviews.
Frankly, I'm hugely disappointed in that every new "Feature" is just another way for me to buy more stuff.
- Podcasts!: Want to get the ones worth watching? You have to upgrade the pc software for 30 bucks.
- Amazon Unbox!: Wow. Now I can buy an old movie that HBO won't even bother showing.
- Now this: Amazon Unbox 2.0: Now I can fight the slow menus to buy a book. I can use that book to read during the long pauses between when I select an option and when they show up on the screen.
I also hate the fact that I can't watch tv while using the slow as hell menu. I've found it's faster to go to their slow flash-based website and schedule a show than use the menu on the TV.
No no...
"Biggs, they're all over me."
"Stay there, Luke, I'm coming."
"I can't shake 'em, I can't shake 'em!"
Luke turns to camera: But I could if I were driving a Scion TC with Turbo! Scion TC!