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Buy From Amazon With Your TiVo

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. haha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    trix are for kids mutherfucker!

  2. Batman by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Asia Ferguson waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were coasters in the park. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Dad were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway.
    Asia was a hat wearing nigga for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the coasters and he said to dad "I want to be on the coasters daddy."
    Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY COASTERS"
    There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in the park at the base of the coaster he knew there were coasters.
    "This is DAD" the radio crackered. "You must fight the coasters!"
    So Asia gotted his hat and climbed up the wall.
    "HE GOING TO KILL US" said the coasters
    "I will shoot at him" said the coaster and he fired the a line of cars. Asia nigged at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill.
    "No! I must kill the coasters" he shouted
    The radio said "No, Asia. You are batman"
    And then Asia was dead.

  3. I, for one, hate this by kithrup · · Score: 1, Troll

    Or, rather, what I presume it will be: thumbs-up icons appearing on screen at random moments during programming. That's right -- you pay TiVo for the privilege of having obtrusive advertising on during the show!

    I've said this for years: TiVo long ago decided that their customers were the advertisers, and not their users.

    That didn't stop them from charging their users, however.