Buy From Amazon With Your TiVo

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @10:34AM from the product-placement-is-about-to-get-interesting dept.

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.

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Reminds me of those HD Radio ads by Maestro485 · 2008-07-22 11:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Kind of OT, but I'm always hearing on my 'regular' radio about how HD Radio can flag a song I like and later let me buy it from iTunes. Every time I hear that, I can't help buy think "Why not just record the damned song and let me download it to my iPod?" (I don't own an iPod, but still).
Actually, now that I think about it, this is way OT. Mod accordingly :)