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View Poll Results: Approximately how much dough have you spent on Amazon Unbox movies to your Tivo?
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Unbox, Whats that? ($0)
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$1-$25
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$25-$50
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5.36% |
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$50-$75
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I'm a Tivo Unbox Junkie! (>$75)
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2.38% |
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04-24-2007, 12:55 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 663
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How much have you spent on Amazon Unbox to your Tivo?
How much money have you spent (NOT including the $15 promotion) on Amazon Unbox videos since its launch on Tivo?
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04-24-2007, 12:58 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Colorado
Posts: 2,593
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Originally Posted by peteypete
(NOT including the $15 promotion)
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$0
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04-24-2007, 02:00 AM
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Don't Try
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 1,165
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$0. Although your poll doesn't have an appropriate option for me, as I know full well what Unbox is, and used the $15 promo.
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04-24-2007, 04:42 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Anaheim, CA 92807
Posts: 373
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$0 spent and I still have my $15 credit. Every time I have looked for a particular movie I want to see, it's either not available at all or it's only available for purchase, not rental. The most recent example of this was Young Guns. Amazon wants $10. Are they nuts? I Netflixed it and it arrived 2 days later. So far, I'm not real impressed with this marriage TiVo has with Amazon.
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04-24-2007, 07:06 AM
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Now in HD!
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 123
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I love unbox, I just can't wait for more shows to be available!
Brett
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04-24-2007, 08:27 AM
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You can call me Bill
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: 845 New York
Posts: 700
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An good partnership
Since I downloaded that UnBox app my wife and kids are in love with it. www.UnBoxOnDemand.com eliminated 99% of the false returns for what is available on TiVo. I don't go to the computer anymore when looking for a TiVo/Amazon movie to download. 
We haven't spent more than $25.00 yet. I did catch the wife starting to order something for the kids that was on the regular cable channels and had to remind her that if she found something to "Look at the rest of the TiVo." Why order something from Amazon when it's also playing on HBO-HD? 
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04-24-2007, 08:58 AM
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TIVO Bender
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Fort Walton Beach
Posts: 198
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$0,
I’m in the same boat as a couple of other people. I spent the $15 promotional and haven't gone back.
As with others I am waiting for HD content and better sound. I would not pay $14-15 for a DL when I can go to the store and purchase the DVD with better sound and also get the DVD extras etc.
It is intriguing that I can go get a missed episode of a TV show, but why? My Tivo does that for me already next time it airs.
Z
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04-24-2007, 09:22 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Stevenson, MD
Posts: 3,996
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Until they offer HD, it will remain $0.
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04-24-2007, 10:21 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 29
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$0 (...and I know what it is)
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04-24-2007, 10:28 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: SW VA
Posts: 2,506
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0$
Projection for future - 0$
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04-24-2007, 10:52 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Elmira, NY
Posts: 3,426
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Originally Posted by crunch3k
$0 (...and I know what it is)
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Ditto.
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04-24-2007, 11:09 AM
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You can call me Bill
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: 845 New York
Posts: 700
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24
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Originally Posted by ZombiE
It is intriguing that I can go get a missed episode of a TV show, but why? My Tivo does that for me already next time it airs.
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I had lost the ability to record 24. Both of my cable cards acted up and another time my cable box lost power and turned itself off. I can not watch 24 unless I have seen the previous episodes - for me it was perfect to be able to get 24 again.
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04-24-2007, 12:27 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Chicago Metro area
Posts: 345
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I would spend more if they offered anamorphic widescreen, DD 5.1, and about a 50% higher bit rate.
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04-24-2007, 12:28 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 22
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I have only purchased 1 movie title. I cant see myself paying $4 for a rental that I have 24 hours to watch from the time I hit "play". Sometimes it takes me (or the kids) 3 days to watch it. Rental from the store is still the best option for me.
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04-24-2007, 12:51 PM
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Dirty Burger
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: The 'verse
Posts: 4,869
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Originally Posted by Jeff74
I have only purchased 1 movie title. I cant see myself paying $4 for a rental that I have 24 hours to watch from the time I hit "play". Sometimes it takes me (or the kids) 3 days to watch it. Rental from the store is still the best option for me.
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I wouldn't pay their ridiculous rental price with their ridiculous terms if there weren't ways around it. I just rewatched a rental last night and It's been several weeks since I watched it the first time.
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04-24-2007, 12:52 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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How is there ways around it?
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04-24-2007, 01:01 PM
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Lucky (?) 200 member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Arlington, MA
Posts: 270
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I haven't spent the $15.00 yet, but not for want of trying -- too many of the unbox titles are still PC-only, no tivo yet.
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04-24-2007, 06:51 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: San Francisco
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I signed up for the $15 promotion, but, haven't used it yet.
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04-24-2007, 07:27 PM
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huh?
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Wichita, KS
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Though I know what it is, I haven't spent a pennie on it yet. It's going to have to something good for me to want to either. I prefer the DVDs, they have special features. For the same reason, I do not download movies from iTunes either.
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04-24-2007, 07:27 PM
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You can call me Bill
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: 845 New York
Posts: 700
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We have way to make you...
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Originally Posted by Jeff74
How is there ways around it?
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S-Video Out > to S-Video In
He might have put it on a DVD. This is how I would try to do it. Simple, and direct.
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04-24-2007, 10:20 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Honolulu, HI
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Originally Posted by etsolow
$0. Although your poll doesn't have an appropriate option for me, as I know full well what Unbox is, and used the $15 promo.
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I sure wish people wouldn't try and get all cute with polls. Think about it, allow some reasonable choices, and the results might be worth discussing. Otherwise we end up just talking about the poll options.
You know, gosh, according to this poll over half the people don't even know what Unbox is. 
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04-25-2007, 07:16 AM
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NCC-1701-D
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Newburyport, MA
Posts: 7,207
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I used the promo for a movie, but my only purchases were for the last 6 episodes of The O.C., since we missed them due to conflicts.
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04-26-2007, 12:56 PM
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04-26-2007, 02:23 PM
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Location: Nevada
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I haven't spent a dime yet, but I use it every now and again. I got a special promotion a while back that resulted in me getting $60 in Unbox credit. I never used it until the TiVo thing came along, and now I'm down to less then $30. Eveyrhting I've spent has been on either TV shows ($2) or movie rentals ($3-$4), so that $60 has gone a long way.
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04-27-2007, 07:06 AM
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I'm surprized how many still don't know what it is.
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04-27-2007, 07:40 AM
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You can call me Bill
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: 845 New York
Posts: 700
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Originally Posted by ChrisTV
I'm surprized how many still don't know what it is.
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Please, most all of us know what UnBox is! This pole only shows money spent out of pocket. Anything not spent out of pocket looks like you don't know what UnBox is.
Poor choice of polling options will get you bad results. 
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04-28-2007, 07:50 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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Yes, putting "What is unbox?" and $0 together was kinda of a joke. Of course you could know what it is and still not spend an extra buck on it. You guys are too sensitive!!
Best solution is to spend a $1 and then vote in the second category! 
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04-30-2007, 02:31 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: NJ
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Doug's unbox on demand app makes it easier but I'd be much more apt to spend more if there was an official way to buy from the tivo...
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05-03-2007, 11:28 PM
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Anybody spend over $100 bucks so far?
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05-04-2007, 07:27 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 831
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Nada. Zip. I have no interest in any type of PPV rental from anyone. In the 10+ years I had DirecTV I only ordered one PPV movie. Why pay $5 to watch a movie when you can get essentially unlimited rentals from Blockbuster Online for about $18 a month. This includes HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs, BTW. I can get up to a dozen movies a week with my 3-at-a-time plan. I get a movie in the mail, make a backup copy for viewing later, return it to my local Blockbuster store, get a free rental with each DVD I return, wash, rinse, repeat, etc. I've got more movies than I'll ever have time to watch and I get all the new releases as soon as they come out. If I don't get them in the mail then my local store usually has a few copies on the shelf.
Now that AACS has been broken on HD-DVDs and BD discs I can rip the rented HD-DVDs to my hard drive and watch them on my HTPC. Of course, I erase everything once I've watched it. I have no desire to make bootleg copies of anything I rent and I just back up movies to DVD-RW discs or my hard drive for timeshifting purposes. I just don't have the room to keep all of the discs I copy, not to mention finding the time to watch them all.
I used to belong to NetFlix but the free rentals with in-store returns at Blockbuster has doubled the amount of discs I got from NetFlix. I also like the fact that my local BB store has all the release dates posted for upcoming movies as well as what has already been released. I used to have to surf the net to find out about new releases and I still never got all the ones I was interested in.
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