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by Kevin Maney
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Jul 10 2007 12:00am EDT

I Want TiVo/Unbox

Finally, we're getting close to the real future of movie rentals. TiVo and Amazon announced a service that makes 10,000 movies through Amazon's Unbox available directly to TV sets through TiVo. In other words, you'd fire up the TiVo, navigate to the Unbox service, click on a movie, download it to the TiVo, and start watching it.

I've had a taste of direct-download movies from Verizon's FiOS service, but that doesn't have much of a selection. I still get Netflix DVDs in the mail because Netflix has an enormous selection. But I want a combo of both, and TiVo/Unbox gets close. (Unfortunately, I don't have a TiVo -- just Verizon's DVR machine. Doh!)

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