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.

Comments

Re:What's with this news?

[mamer-retrogamer]

Well, the Apple TV does just that. You use iTunes to buy movies and songs with a remote control. In other words, it's not really a bad idea if they manage to figure out how to do this well.

I'm pretty sure they are talking about buying things other than music and movies. I been able to get music (via MusicChoice) and movies (via Amazon Unbox) on my HD Tivo for quite some time.

Not that I do...

Re:Fortunatly...

[HTH NE1]

My Series 1 SA doesn't get this (much) spam!

BTW & FYI, check to make sure your Series 1 fan is operating properly. It looks like I'm going to have to replace the fans in two Series2 units, so the older Series1 units may be reaching end of life and start overheating or even failing to restart if the fan doesn't get up to speed.