Make "new to theater" movies available over TiVo

[Bob723]

Now that we have Unbox and since so any TiVo owners have a home theater system, what would really be cool is if TiVo could work with the studios to come up with a way for us to watch newly released movies via TiVo. I would much rather watch a movie in my own home theater and would be willing to pay extra to do so.

[classicsat]

TiVo wouldn't have the clout to do that. Even Amazon wouldn't.

[wmcbrine]

HDNet Films (or whatever the name of their movie studio arm is) might go for it, with their "day-and-date" strategy. And there's a current movie, "Purple Violets", that went straight to iTunes (to come out on DVD later). But yeah, most of the studios are still wedded to theatrical-first releases.